145. DAVID
SCHNELL
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Castel
2014
Oil on canvas 230 x 360 cm |
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Portal
2015
Oil on canvas
290 x 460 cm
Oil on canvas
290 x 460 cm
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Via Strata
2013
Oil on canvas 230 x 360 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
IN 1971 in Bergisch
Gladbach, Germany
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Leipzig
Studies:
1995 - 00painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
Leipzig2000 - 02Meisterschüler (master student) in the class of Prof. Arno Rink
2002graduation as a master student in the class of Prof. Arno Rink
Themes and
style:
David Schnell paints landscapes tamed
by humans: a forest cut in two by a motorway, fields geometrically framed by
forest paths. He gets his inspiration from the countryside near the city of
Leipzig.
Schnell is
considered to be a younger contemporary of the East German painter, Neo Rauch
and a member of the so-called "Leipzig school".
Techniques:
Is
developed in oil on canvas paintings
Exhibitions
In 2010 Schnell had a solo exhibition at the Stunde
Kunstverein in Hannover which then traveled to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague
and the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen.
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Eigen+Art
In
his own words:
"There is this amazing moment when a click happens. In
almost every painting there is this moment when something little happens and
you say ‘Ok, that’s it!’ Perhaps there are a few small things after that, but
that’s mostly it. I cannot describe how or when this happens, but, sometimes I
think that I have to do a lot of things and then a little thing does it. In the
last few years, things changed a lot. I used to have much clearer ideas about
how the painting should look but now, in the last two or three years, things
are just developing out of the painting process itself, drops and drips. It’s
difficult to say…it’s magic! [Laughs] Sometimes I equate painting to physics or
mathematics…there are many possibilities but in the end there is only one way
to find a particular painting. The funny thing is that I’ll have a studio
visit, and other people will realize when the painting is finished. They notice
the same little thing I do that finishes the painting. One thing I love about
painting is that it’s not very describable. In German we say Gesetzmäßigkeit,
it’s so open but also very fixed."
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more Information: