Markus Amm
dal 14/10/2010 al 11/12/2010
Segnalato da
14/10/2010
Markus Amm
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
The artist experiments with other picture carriers and has, for years now, produced photograms that result from direct illumination. His minimalist formal language borrows from Constructivism and questions the assumptions of the avant-garde.
Markus Amm (*1969) poses elementary questions about painting: how does priming modify the picture carrier? How does a spatial illusion emerge from the simplest of media? What is a painted line capable of in contrast to a connection between two canvases that, however, optically functions like a line? Amm repeatedly applies layers of chalk priming onto a canvas, until every trace of the textile ground disappears. In another work he draws delicate lines onto a barely primed canvas and consequently brings the material carrier to the center of our attention. He also experiments with other picture carriers and has, for years now, produced photograms that result from direct illumination. His minimalist formal language borrows from Constructivism and questions the assumptions of the avant-garde.
We would like to thank the accounting firm KPMG AG for their support of this project.
Image:
© Markus Amm
o. T., 2008
Enamelfarbe und Spraylack auf Papier auf Leinwand, Courtesy Herald St.-Gallery, Foto: Goswin Schwendinger
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