After 30 years, the painter Markus Weggenmann (*1953), who comes from Singen and works in Zurich and Lumnezia (Graubünden), is returning to the art museum in his home town. From the very beginning, he has consistently devoted himself to the essential means of expression in painting: color - more precisely, pigments, their appearance and effect.
He became internationally renowned in the 1990s with his vibrant stripe paintings, which he presented on walls. With these works, he inscribed himself in the circle of color painting of "radical painting".
Weggenmann has long since left the minimalist repertoire of forms behind him. What remains are monochrome painted surfaces and rich, highly pigmented color, with only the bare minimum of glue. What has also remained is the demand for a spatially unfolding, performative effect of the painting. Today, he experiments with organic-amorphous forms that are increasingly tipping over into the almost figurative. However, color remains fundamental. It makes his paintings an event to be viewed. With this approach, the painter asserts his very own position within contemporary painting.
He became internationally renowned in the 1990s with his vibrant stripe paintings, which he presented on walls. With these works, he inscribed himself in the circle of color painting of "radical painting".
Weggenmann has long since left the minimalist repertoire of forms behind him. What remains are monochrome painted surfaces and rich, highly pigmented color, with only the bare minimum of glue. What has also remained is the demand for a spatially unfolding, performative effect of the painting. Today, he experiments with organic-amorphous forms that are increasingly tipping over into the almost figurative. However, color remains fundamental. It makes his paintings an event to be viewed. With this approach, the painter asserts his very own position within contemporary painting.
»Eine Arbeit, wie ich sie mir vorstelle, muss Platz schaffen zum Atmen«. (Markus Weggenmann)
»Diese Bilder haben keine Erinnerung; sie sind reine Gegenwart.« (Christoph Bauer, Kunstmuseum Singen)
»Diese Bilder haben keine Erinnerung; sie sind reine Gegenwart.« (Christoph Bauer, Kunstmuseum Singen)
