Marcel Eichner “Point Blank”

Marcel Eichner “Point Blank”

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James Fuentes presents Point Blank, a solo exhibition by Berlin - based artist Marcel Eichner. In the titles of the works in the show - Gang, Uptown, Android, Beware of Circus - Eichner allows the viewer access to the confluence of subject matter inherent in the paintings. Eichner’s newest works channel the distortion and filters of the news and art history through deeply psychological landscapes. The immediacy of ink, a material that Eichner uses throughout this new body of work, enhances the fragility of the subject matter and offers the intimacy of drawing. The images almost seem to emerge out of the ether. They are then further distorted, mutilated and ultimately transfigured. In Banal Sojourn, the urgency of these works is conveyed by an image of a painter at an easel teetering on the edge of a delicate structure. He is either pissing or painting on a canvas, while an obfuscated Statue of Liberty appears in the background. Somehow in the end the works create a harmony within themselves and as a group… perhaps it is the use of a soothing palette, or the success of the unfiltered purging which speaks to the potential for unease in all of us.

Marcel Eichner (Born 1977, Siegburg, Germany) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1999-2004 with Professor Jörg Immendorf. He presented solo exhibitions at McKee Gallery, New York, USA (2013, 2014), Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (2010, 2012, 2014) and Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany. This is his second exhibition with the gallery.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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