The works of the Schleswig-Holstein artist Bernhard G. Lehmann (steel sculptures, aquatint, copy collages), which are strongly inspired by the ideas of the old master of Informal Art Antoni Tápies, are characterized by basic order, deliberate chaos and a return to order. If you touch the sculptures, they sound, you recognize the deliberate disorder and the gentle return to order. The artist's works, created as copy collages, either date from the earlier days of his career or were commissioned as part of a series entitled "Mallorca - Reality or Dream". Copy collages are created using paint and photocopying techniques on foils, which are pressed through a press and then placed on top of each other in front of a white background, thus achieving the depth and color brilliance that characterize them. In recent years, Lehmann has been working with the aquatint technique. As with his role model, he dispenses with the usual embossing on the edges, instead using the entire sheet for the depiction. Most of the artist's works captivate with their simplicity, clear lines, outstanding graphics and artistic and technical realization, expression through black, rarely red - and omission, depth through embossing. The materiality of the paper is incorporated into the object; everything seems to drift apart on it, but is held in place by the format, a deliberate chaos, a basic order, a finding one's way back. Lehmann represented the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein at a prestigious exhibition in Tokyo, is represented in the Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf and has had works included in the collection of the Sparkasse Foundation of the same federal state. The artist is represented at all important exhibitions.
