05.09. – 28.09.2019

WOCHENSCHAU

Marwan

05.09. – 12.09. 2019

For Marwan, who worked with his face as a motif for decades, this was a means of exploring his own self, internal mood, and spirituality. With each glance, the works are created anew, and without individual features they are a symbol of the constant internal and external mercuriality of humans. In the large-scale oil paintings and watercolours from the Marionetten 253(Marionettes) series (ca 1980), vivid colours are clearly present, applied with intense brush strokes. Just as the faces become landscapes, the dolls presented in distorted poses turn into still lives.

Gallery

Marwan, Marionette, July 1981 Watercolour, pencil and opaque white on paper, 78.5 x 57.3 cm, signed and dated on the reverse

Marwan, untitled 1979, watercolour and pencil on paper, at the back side: drawing ,Marionette with watercolour, pencil and opaque white, 55,7 x 38,7 cm, signed and dated on the upper right, signed and dated on the reverse side

Marwan, Marionette, October 1982, watercolour, pencil and opaque white on paper, 78 x 56.4 cm, signed and dated on the reverse

Marwan, Marionette, January 1981, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 76.7 x 58 cm, signed and dated on the back

Marwan, Marionette, 1980, watercolour and pencil on paper, 87.7 x 65.7 cm, signed and dated upper left

Marwan, Marionette, October 1983, watercolour, gouache and opaque white on paper, 78.5 x 56 cm, signed and dated on the reverse

Marwan, Marionette, December 1979 watercolour and pencil on paper, 65.5 x 44.1 cm, signed and dated on lower left, signed and dated on reverse

Marwan, Marionette, January 1981, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 66.2 x 44.1 cm, signed and dated on lower right, signed and dated on reverse

Marwan, Marionette, June 1979 watercolour, pencil and opaque white on paper, 38.3 x 58 cm, signed and dated at upper right, signed and dated on the reverse

Marwan, Marionette, August 1980, Watercolour and pencil on paper, 66.5 x 88.5 cm, signed and dated on lower right, signed and dated on reverse

Marwan, Marionette, April 1981, watercolour and pencil on paper, 57 x 77.3 cm, signed and dated at upper right, signed and dated on the reverse side

Jakob Mattner

14.09. – 19.09. 2019

The interest of Jakob Mattner (* 1946) applies to the play of light and shadow. At the same time, the materiality of the objects fades into the background, because he is interested in the contrast between brightness and darkness. Initially inspired by Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus, Mattner has found a visual language that is second to none in the course of his work. In his installations, the artist plays architectural pieces or even entire architectural spaces, immersing him in a lucid, dreamlike or supernatural atmosphere. In this exhibition gallery Michael Haas presents Mattner’s latest works from this year.