{"id":34282,"date":"2025-02-21T17:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/?post_type=exhibition-detail&#038;p=34282"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:02:38","slug":"thomas-bayrle","status":"publish","type":"exhibition-detail","link":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/exhibition-detail\/thomas-bayrle\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bayrle &#8211; Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text-und-bild toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/header-text-und-bild-option-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-side-1 cf-gutter-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-5'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5 position-fixed'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 header-text-und-bild-text-area'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-5'>\n<h4 class='ho-sd-h1' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Be 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class='ho-sd-body'>The SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT presents a major solo exhibition of Frankfurt-based artist Thomas Bayrle (*1937). On view are 55 works, primarily from the past twenty years, including paintings and prints, sculptures and object-based works, as well as sound installations and a video piece.<br><br>In his art, Bayrle engages with fundamental aspects of modern society. How are religion and society, the individual and the mass, industrially manufactured products and the technical apparatuses of their production interconnected? Alongside the structures of consumption, urbanity, and technology, themes such as movement, pop and mass culture, and (substitute) religion play a key role. The artist explores popular works from art history\u2014from Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Masaccio to Claude Monet\u2014as well as the subject of labor.<br><br>In the 1960s and 1970s, Bayrle laid the innovative groundwork for his characteristic \u201csuperforms.\u201d The repetition, connection, and interweaving of single elements into an overall image can be found in almost all of Bayrle\u2019s works to this day and is closely linked to the artist\u2019s biography.<br><br>Bayrle first trained as a machine weaver before turning to commercial and print graphics. The printing techniques he used there have informed his artistic practice both materially and conceptually, tracing the path from analog technique to today\u2019s ubiquitous digitality. 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