Martin Kasper
August 31 to October 17, 2014: Martin Kasper, PaintingsMartin Kasper, born in 1962, has dedicated himself to space. He is primarily concerned with spatial alignments whose design exerts a pull on the viewer so that they feel drawn into the space.
Detail of a self-portrait from 2013
A viewer sits in front of the painting "The Red Hall" from 2009. You could be forgiven for thinking that he is in a museum - in front of the Red Room.
If you select a section and try to put yourself in this position, you are actually suggested to enter the picture.
Here the viewer stands in front of the TV Tower II from 2010. The building is abandoned. The interior gives a dreary impression. For this reason ...
... we walk into the picture and remove the linen sheets from the furniture to give the room a sense of hospitality.
The paintings have an almost hypnotic effect. The objectivity is tangible. The imagination lets you float into the architecture in order to enter other rooms and perhaps also to stay there for a while.
Milena and Lilou, 2013
Mark, 2013
Shizugo, 2013
A series of large-format portraits also convey the consistent structure of Kasper's paintings. In comparison with the room paintings, they actually have an architectural effect, and one cannot help but marvel at the charming atmosphere that architecture can convey.
Vita
Martin Kasper was born in Schramberg in 1962 and attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1982 to 1987. In 1990, he received a one-year scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart. This was followed by further scholarships in Montréal, Basel and Paris. The artist has been a guest lecturer at the HEAR in Strasbourg since 2012. Martin Kasper lives and works in Freiburg.