Leergut, Weißwein, 2010
Udo Koch

Udo Koch, born in Offenbach in 1958, studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1982 to 1988. From 1998 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. In 2003, Udo Koch was appointed to the ABK Stuttgart, where he taught sculpture for over two decades. Form and aesthetics Proverbially, no two eggs are alike, but no two things are as similar as two eggs. Udo Koch takes the similarity of forms further, to the point of alienation: he deals with the external forms of objects. He varies these on the basis of their formal ‘interstitial’ spaces. One example of this is the series ‘Leergut’ (Empties), which he places in the room as stylised cuboids, with the bottles remaining white and the interstitial spaces retaining the original colour of the bottles. The processing of well-known brand names into amorphous forms from mirrored silhouettes is another example.