Every room has a corner, even the round space in the transition from the wall to the floor. The Stern-Wywiol Galerie presents two new, young artists who deal with corners and edges and the theme of space, but who pursue very different approaches and achieve very different results.
Marco Stanke, born 1987 in Bad Aibling (Rosenheim), lives and works in Munich
Marco Stanke works abstractly. He is interested in color and form and the interaction of the work with the space. In his mostly geometric works, the canvas itself becomes the subject of the picture, accompanied or counteracted by the painting. Canvases are stacked or run around corners, breaking out of their rectangular dimensions. Marco Stanke plays with the viewer's expectations with relish and sometimes mischievously, questioning the boundaries between painting and sculpture and between the content of the picture and its support.
Marco Stanke's work has already been recognized in an exhibition at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt.
Tobias Stutz, born 1983 in Filderstadt, lives in the Rhineland and works in Bonn
Tobias Stutz works figuratively. Residential buildings of captivating modern architecture are just as much a theme as interior design details and design classics. Perspective and thus space and surface are omnipresent in his paintings. The architecture is not the scene of a plot, but the main protagonist and central subject of the picture, modeled by light and shadow, with the surrounding nature merely forming the frame. The lighting mood of the pictures is reminiscent of 19th century landscape painting and thus also contributes to an exaggeration of the architecture.
Both artists pose many questions with their works, which can be answered by thinking outside the box. When is a picture a picture? What is the relationship between man, architecture and nature? ... to name just a few.
The two positions are juxtaposed in the exhibition and complemented by a sculpture by Willi Siber (born 1949 in Eberhardzell-Dietenwengen, lives and works there), which conquers the space through corners and curves.