Patina Paintings 187, In The Garden During Building Renovation, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 2017-2019
Stretched canvas in standard size, white universal primer
300 x 500 cm
Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Patina Paintings

2002-2020

The Patina Paintings, called Gebrauchsbilder in German [the term implies both that the canvases are consumer objects and that they fulfil a need] are created in the locations where they are hung. The ready-made, white primed canvases are taken, without prior manipulation, to a selected location and remain exposed there for a period of time to be determined. They absorb and reproduce the specific patina of this location. This process of asorption can continue infinitely or be interrupted at some point. Duration, the name of the location, and size determine the painting and provide its title.

Presented in exhibitions

Havremagasinet, Boden, 2013
Weserburg, Bremen, 2011
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, 2019
Galerie Hussenot, Paris, 2019
D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, 2007
Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2021
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2019
Atelier Amden, 2014
Gallery Friedrich Petzel, New York, 2010
Esther Schipper, Seoul, 2023
Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, 2022