MARKUS AMM – PART ONE

Posted on 2021-04-19

In his exhibition of new works, Markus Amm turns the canvas into a window onto fluctuating emotional atmospheres. Quiet, luminous, transitional: the paintings suggest a continuum of sensations, in which the viewer almost feels looking as its own form of delight, akin to the afterimages playing behind closed eyelids in a sunlit room.
Amm handles the canvases with dexterity. The highly absorbent gesso board creates a kind of screen onto which the oil diffuses. Rendered as smooth and lapidary as glass, pigment fogging the canvases like coloured smoke.

Opposite – Untitled, 2020

Exhibition runs through to May 29th, 2021

Herald St
43 Museum St
WC1A 1LY
London

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