Berlin Frames: Marc Schmitz

Space here is less a perspective opening as a window than a relation of the canvas to the viewer’s body. The power of the paintings in this series of artwork relies on the process of their creation. Marc Schmitz describes this process as an act similar to alchemy. The artist is playing with the energy of time and mixing the colours as a transformer in the artistic process. In his work Marc Schmitz reflects upon the power of time and space in the process of creation. There is no narration, mimesis or recollection. Associative and interpretative possibilities abound. The paintings confront one with the limits of what can be verbalized; force one to capitulate, as it were, before the language-transcending phenomenon of the picture. Without end or intention, Marc Schmitz appears as one of the few seminal witnesses of a time which is ridden with the issues of 'globalisation', 'internationalisation' and their conduit, 'cultural hegemony'.