o.T., 2009
left: ca. 200 × 200 cm, 16 parts, acrylic on canvas
right: 290 × 190 cm, acrylic on canvas
installation view
CMYK Systems brings together works in which painting is built from visible layers, supports and colour planes rather than from illusionistic space.
The works extend the pixel/stencil logic into larger colour fields, modular panels and physical painting systems.
The works use CMYK logic as a physical method of constructing an image. Transparent and opaque layers of colour are added, shifted and overlapped on canvas or canvas mounted on wood. The support remains visible: raw canvas, wooden edges, cut panels and uncovered grounds are not hidden, but become part of the image structure.
Instead of treating colour as a surface effect, these works show colour as something constructed in time — through repeated decisions, superimposed planes, exposed supports and partially unresolved edges. The image appears as a system of layers that is still open, material and unstable.
The project marks a point where painting begins to behave like an object: not only as a flat image, but as a construction of colour, support, rhythm and physical presence.
Selected works, 2008–2012
“Neun Farbtafeln”, 2012, 160 x 160 cm (9 pieces), acrylic on canvas and wood
“One magenta, two cyans, three yellows”, 2010, 60 x 145 cm, acrylic on canvas and wood
“The Last Supper”, 2010, 75 x 150 cm, acrylic on canvas
“o.T.”, 2010, 180 x 140 cm, acrylic on canvas
“o.T.”, 2008, 150 x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas