GALERIE SUSANNE NEUERBURG | 12.4. – 21.5.2021

SEBASTIAN FRITZSCH UND MARCO ZUMBÉ

Abstract painting is once again very popular in contemporary art.
For a long time, it had been lost from view. After the Second World War, it was ideologically and culturally praised as the superiority of Western art over socialist realism. But since the 1960s, when art was also expected to play a socio-critical and time-reflective role, it has received less attention because of its lack of narrative character.
So pure seeing is celebrated again. In terms of content, the viewer is given freedom to extract from the pictures that which is not immediately predetermined by representational elements, like an invitation to pause and concentrate.

A great love of experimentation can be seen in the works of Marco Zumbé (born 1975, Cologne). Starting from line, point and surface, the basic elements of every drawing, combined with an exuberant choice of colours, he creates opulent pictorial landscapes.
Numerous layers of the most diverse graphic and painterly components, combined with screen-printing techniques, form the texture of his pictures. His choice of tools and materials testify to his desire to question conventional painting methods. His pool of material consists of patterns from the dusty interior design of past decades, such as imitation wood, floral patterns and awning stripes, which are underlaid with gestural painting and in turn also covered over.