Dietrich Helms

(b. 1933)

Drawing, artist’s book, installation. Dietrich Helms’s compositions are a fusion of abstraction and realism. He often relies on random effects or employs readymades and cheap materials that he processes himself. Helms considers the physicality of matter less important than its symbolic and conceptual layer. Art works are part of the creative process, which plays out mainly in the artist’s mind. The process is an attempt to find all possible meanings of a given concept. It can result in dozens of works analysing the same topic.