nude, standing Print

Ingo Schrader's work moves in the dialectic between the actually invisible phenomenon of space and the experiential space of the body as an instrument of perception. The subject is complex enough, so that his explorations make use of many different techniques and disciplines. Fine arts, architecture and photography are his main fields of work. The simplification and reduction to the essential is an intensive process to condense the artistic statement to such an extent that the intensity / identity of the work is created. A balance between formal reduction and abundance, between sensuality and rationality, between calculation and chaos is the goal. In this sense, Ingo Schrader's minimalistic, abstract works, which test one's own spatial experience, are just as much a part of the work as the figurative nude drawings, which focus on the human body, the instrument of perception. These drawings and watercolours also show the search for reduction to the essential, the description of the motif often with only one single line. In short, it is about nothing less than the big picture: space and time and our existence as sentient beings, bodies in space.