Driftwood - Material collages by Dieter Holz

An initial desire to collect developed into an indomitable passion. Weathered wood in many different forms, bizarre or round-cut stones or pieces of glass, fossils, cork, cordage, fragments of leather, rubber, plastic or metal, which bear clear traces of the effects of sun, wind or water, formed the material for his unique pictorial creations. For Dieter Holz, the special appeal of the material collage lay in the interplay between intention and chance. By placing the found objects in a new relationship to each other in the picture, he achieved a poeticization. Characteristics and beauties become visible that were previously not shown to advantage. He once expressed his artistic intention as follows: "Because many people have lost the ability to see the marvelous, mysterious and beautiful in everyday life, I am testing the suggestive power of unusual, preferably unexpected means of design and their combination...My material pictures should delight the viewer, make him think, and make him feel his kinship with everything that has grown and become. May they not see things as uninteresting objects that stand outside of us. I think they are an indispensable part of world harmony and symbolize connections."

Works from three decades will be shown until October 2024 from Wednesday to Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm in the Kunstsalon, Karlstr.3, 17459 Koserow.