Ottmar Hörl (* 1950, Nauheim) is one of the most renowned German  contemporary artists. His works and large sculptures made of  industrially manufactured plastic are based on the idea of

the serial  design principle. In numerous publicity projects he has shown how art  can regain its necessary place in public life. Ottmar Hörl's work  focuses on the aesthetics of everyday culture. At the same time, the  artist sees himself as an initiator of communication processes. Through  deliberate provocation, he initiates discussions and encourages changed  ways of thinking and seeing. With his extraordinary ideas, the artist  also plays a major role in art history.
Thus, the Broom pieces of Ottmar Hörl are an innovative extension of the  monochrome, whose creation goes back to the year 1915. With Kazimir  Malevich's Black Square, the abstraction, which begun in Cubism, reached  its peak. The first completely monochrome painting (ancient Greek monos  = "only" and chroma = "color") became an icon of painting of the 20th  century. This style of painting with the goal of maximum concentration  and reduction continued with the ultramarine paintings of the French  artist Yves Klein in 1955.
Since 1993, Ottmar Hörl has also dealt with the concept of the  monochrome: "What has always disturbed me in a monochrome is the lack of  depth - [...] on canvas it is only a wafer-thin surface. What I'm  interested in is the sensual presence of a monochrome, that it has  depth!"[1] In response, the artist created a Broom piece in 1993 for the  first time. With these sculptures, Ottmar Hörl wants to investigate  whether works of art can be derived from an everyday object such as the  broom. He uses them to create three-dimensional images that depict his  idea of

painting and, above all, represent the first three-dimensional  monochrome in the world.
 

The Broom pieces also include the Salient points, which will enter the  Bode Gallery. The salient point, the crux of the matter, the deciding  factor, the point around which everything revolves is a very  philosophical and individual question. The salient point is different  for each person and cannot be defined by universal rules. Ottmar Hörl’s  basic philosophy, which is reflected in his complete works, allows many  opinions and does not want to give people a definitive solution, just as  he does not believe that "one solution" exists in sculpture and  painting.