ECCPROJECTS #21

ECCPROJECTS #21 Markus Saile

16 September – 13 October 2024
Open by appointment only

ECC Project Room
Via Martiri della Libertà 2
10023 Chieri TO Italy

Caption of the work exhibited:
Markus Saile, Untitled, 2024, oil on wood, 61 x 49 cm

Markus Saile (Stuttgart, 1981) lives and works in Cologne.
Saile’s new works convene the space of painting, in a subtle interplay between the space where it is situated, the space it represents and the space it constructs in dialogue with architecture. Thus, the in between space, in between the paintings, creates a political space where we stand and move, as viewers. Pictorial problems can be understood as architectural problems, in the sense of a socio-political structure. Beyond the in-situ and the context, it is an investigation into painting in volume, the depth of the surface, and the extension of this practice into a performative field of action.
His current paintings are created in a process of overlapping layers of paint and thin veils that reveal their material life. Paint deposits accumulate at the edges of the supports, revealing the temporal structure of the painting process like the annual rings of a tree and lending them an object-like quality. Gestural interventions dramatize the pictorial space in the sense of a stage situation. Saile’s conceptual work with the painterly gesture thus can be understood as a kind of performative re-enactment of its historical, temporal and spatial potentials.
Markus Saile creates volume in one brush movement, like they do on Blender to create forms. His method can therefore be related to the extrusion process in 3D programs. Instead of putting a series of points together in a line, which is the drawing perspective work, one brush flow creates a plane in one gesture. Here the paintings are thoughts in this contemporary context which is not anymore about questions of re-presentations but hybrid relations.