GERHARD MARX
GERHARD MARX, Dwelling Drawing I
plant material and acrylic ground on canvas and board, 70 x 90 cm
Gerhard Marx’s poetic and philosophical visual language is composed through a physical engagement with distinctive material traditions. His process entails careful acts of dissection and rearrangement, which allow Marx to engage the poetic potential and philosophical assumptions of his chosen material in the process of developing original drawing, sculptural and performative languages. A primary focus in his work engages physical depictions of space – ‘spatial imaginaries’ – with an interest in how these descriptions of space affect and shape that which it describes. Marx uses acts of fragmentation and reassembly to construct alternate and deliberately complicated spatial propositions that aspire to hold multiple positionalities, doubled presences, folded histories, spaces that exist across, in between, and amongst.
GERHARD MARX, Dwelling Drawing II
plant material and acrylic ground on canvas and board, 70 x 90 cm
Gerhard Marx’s poetic and philosophical visual language is composed through a physical engagement with distinctive material traditions. His process entails careful acts of dissection and rearrangement, which allow Marx to engage the poetic potential and philosophical assumptions of his chosen material in the process of developing original drawing, sculptural and performative languages. A primary focus in his work engages physical depictions of space – ‘spatial imaginaries’ – with an interest in how these descriptions of space affect and shape that which it describes. Marx uses acts of fragmentation and reassembly to construct alternate and deliberately complicated spatial propositions that aspire to hold multiple positionalities, doubled presences, folded histories, spaces that exist across, in between, and amongst.
GERHARD MARX, THE SAME PLACE EXCAVATED THREE TIMES (A CARTOGRAPHY OF CAVITIES)
RECONFIGURED MAP FRAGMENTS ON CANVAS, 100 x 120 cm (39 1/4 x 47 1/8 in.)
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