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Volker Diehl: MARTIN ASSIG - 17 Apr 2010 to 5 June 2010 Current Exhibition |
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MARTIN ASSIG
Frage, 2010 ( detail) Encaustic on wood, 30x23cm |
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MARTIN ASSIG BEUTE UND BERGE ER�FFNUNG Freitag, 16. April 2010, 19 Uhr 17. April - 5. Juni 2010 Dienstag - Samstag, 11 - 18 Uhr GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL LINDENSTR. 35 10969 BERLIN Berlin, April 2010 � From April 17, 2010, Galerie Volker Diehl will show works from the last two years by Martin Assig. Selected works from two work groups will be presented: �Die Beute� and a group of overpainted amateur sources. The series of drawings �Die Beute�, charcoal drawings on paper, collects the artist�s motifs and forms and constitutes a large inventory of image inventions. In the other work group, Assig works with still lifes, landscapes and mountain scenes by amateur painters, which he found in flea markets and junk shops. �These Paintings carry all the connotations of kitsch� Assig says, �But: Whoever produced them has the intended and applied self-consciousness that they are making a painting and creating a picture.� His series of overpainted small scale mountain scenes and flower still lifes stand in the tradition of the established contemporary strategy of overpainting in modern painting as practiced by de Koonings, Rauschenberg or Arnulf Rainer. The current series of Assig�s small scale paintings, sometimes executed with incorporated textual contents transcends the simple strategy of overpainting as provocation. They are less immediately to do with questions about the pre-existing status as an image re-used, but rather are directed towards personalised dialectical or internal aesthetic outcomes. They are images that seek to express the �imageness� of their nature, and not specific pictorial-narrative or appropriative inferences. To Assig, overpainting is less about a strategic concealment, but is about evaluating a kinship with the residual presence of making. A displaced kinship with the anonymity of the maker, less what they have made, and more with their shared desire to make an image. It is only at this level that Martin Assig can be said to have an affinity with these commonly found amateur sources. The association is that which is purely psychological and not formal. In this way the details or remainders of the overpainted sources, and which the artist has chosen to leave in view, are able to take on a new life and transformed identity or meaning within Assig�s finished work. It is not intended for the purposes of completing the possible intentions of the unknown painters, but by garnering the psychological presence of their hoped for realisation. The connection of text and image can be found in both work groups. The painted text with its poetic connotations surmounts its actual meaning and becomes a visual element, in which the meaning of the words resonates. Martin Assig paints mainly with wax. Encaustic, the old hot wax process that he uses also in the series of small-scale pictures currently presented, enables him to create startlingly intense and colourful images. This technique allows him to influence the composition and density of pigments in the fluid wax, and to create glowing pictures with a slightly relief-like surface. Martin Assig�s works are like no others. They possess a very singular and clear sense of his personal autonomy. Martin Assig was born in 1959 in the German town of Schwelm. His works were shown in solo exhibitions, amongst others, in the Saarlandmuseum Saarbr�cken, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Hamburger Kunsthalle, National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Weserburg | Museum f�r moderne Kunst, Bremen, and Museum Jena, and in group expositions amongst others in the Akademie der K�nste Berlin, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Kunstsammlung Basel and Marta Herford. After shows in the years 1992, 1995, 2002, 2004 and 2008, Beute und Berge is the sixth show by Martin Assig in the Galerie Volker Diehl. He lives and works in Berlin and in Braedikow, Brandenburg. Exhibition catalog: Martin Assig: Vasen, Gipfel, Menschen Schirmer/Mosel, 2010 29� |
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