Roland Biermann's work "snow+concrete 45A" (2020) is showcased in the group exhibition "Impressions – Works from Chicago Sculpture International", presented by Chicago Sculpture International.
Dates: 11 July - 25 August 2025
Location: Fine Arts Building Gallery and Courtyard, 410 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois
The Fine Art Institute of Chicago will be showing a major Gustave Caillebotte exhibition, "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World", this summer.
As a joint event, Chicago Sculpture International (CSI) have invited 24 international artists to respond to Caillebotte's works. This exhibition with the title "Impressions" will be held at the gallery of the historic The Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago from 11 July - 25 August 2025.
Roland's work selected for the exhibition is the diptych "snow+concrete 45 A" (2020). In the form of screenprints from photographs, the diptych is printed on the front, sides, top and bottom of thick concrete panels, a new hybrid form, adding a three-dimensional element to the two-dimensional print. The work shows a night scene in a car park, where one concrete barrier is covered with snow and the other one is not. In a subtle way, the organic material snow transforms the man-made concrete architecture, similar to the way, snow transforms the architecture in Caillebotte's painting View of Rooftops (Snow Effect), 1878-79.
In Caillebotte's painting , the snow is almost overpowering, hiding and concealing large parts of the architecture and transforming colour into a bleak, almost monochrome urban landscape. In Roland's work, referencing man-made global warming and climate change, the amount of snow is very little, more like what is left, once the snow melts in spring rather than a massive blanket of snow in mid-winter.
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