Press Release
Julius von Bismarck explores in his art how people define their place within their immediate environment and how society negotiates the concept of nature. He frequently uses deconstruction as a tool to question how, as a society, we evaluate nature as landscape and who asserts the right of interpretation. The title “When Platitudes Become Form” alludes not only to our tendency to reduce perceptions and meanings to simplistic clichés but also to the iconic exhibition “Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form” of 1969. For his exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie, Bismarck has, for the first time, chosen a biographical approach and included some family history in work that centres on the interplay between how nature is seen and how history is written.
