Leitmantel celebrates seven years of friendship between Jason K. Brown and Veit Schmidleitner, whose paths first crossed in New York. Now they make their debut in a duo show in Germany, showcasing their work at Gallery PERG in Ludwigsburg.

Veit is an artist, inventor and co-founder of Quantum Oddity Studios. As a developer and researcher for NASA and BASF, Schmidleitner‘s artistic tendencies push technology and materials beyond their considered use to produce sculptures and paintings that take the viewer to an unknown terrain.

Using principles of metamerism to deepen the relations between colour and light, with pigments developed and used exclusively by the artist. Allowing colours and shapes to form their own visual language. He showed his work in multiple group and solo shows located in various cities such as Berlin, Vilnius, St. Etienne, London and New York.

Schmidleitner’s contribution to the show is built around rails, rectangles, and angles—symbols of tracks to ei- ther follow or use to get lost. His previous rail configurations have been shown in groups, with up to seven of the sculptures creating a complete work. Now the artist shows them in twos, emphasizing their track aspect and the exhibition as a duo. These groupings have a more intimate scale than before, adapting to the gallery space.