In his works of the last years, Marc Schmitz focusses on painting and the painting process itself: he is interested in creating a system of action sequences in which images arise without iconographic claim. With intellectual precision and conceptual ascetic.
The repeated action of paint application and the patterning of the material color refuses any image content. The process of painting refers to their primary and self-important basics, such as surface, structure, image carrier, and especially the color.
"Formally speaking, an area may initially appear as empty space, defined by the distance between bodies and planes, with rhythm resulting from the ranking of distances and spatial boundaries -with the alternation of pause and non-pause, the" spacing" becomes “timing" – and, thus, the white space transforms into an essential unity of meaning.At the same time the space is filled with materiality. The room quality is apparent from the degree of compaction and the potential of their content. Only when this space is put into motion by action of force, the forcefield of the interior begins to work. In the context of artistic operations space is not just something intangible or immaterial between the limits, but becomes the space for articulation.
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The concept of 'space' is central in the work of Marc Schmitz. Color as materialized energy is transformed in his paintings into a real flow of energy, into a suggestive imaginary space. At the same time, they explore the tension between surface and space. ...
