Milan, Ribot presents Of ants and bees, solo exhibition by German artist Marco Reichert

Ribot Gallery in Milan is hosting the exhibition of ants and bees, the second solo show by Marco Reichert (Berlin, 1979) hosted at the gallery. A few years after his debut in Milan, the artist returns to the city with a series of works created for the occasion, reflecting the context within which they were created: a society that is increasingly led to coexist with technology.

The paintings on display are created through a rather intricate process that blends manual actions with pictorial traces imprinted on the canvas by machines designed and programmed by Reichert himself. Initiated several years ago now, this method of work returns compositions that lie in the sphere of abstract painting, but have recently recovered features that can be traced back to figuration. Indeed, the rounded forms constituted of the alternation between line and void may recall the growth rings of wood, the geometric patterns that nature spontaneously generates, or even faces and fingerprints.

The title of this exhibition quotes an interview with painter Jonathan Meese, in which reference is made to a pure animal instinct, like that of ants and bees, that guides the artist in making the very last details of the work. Not foregoing intervention on the canvases, enhancing them with colored backgrounds or treatments designed to make certain portions reflective and metallic, the artist balances and balances the human-machine relationship. Their interaction gives rise to paintings evoking a physicality and spatiality that make them perceived as living compositions, daughters of topical and peculiar language that becomes thought and action.

For the exhibition Marco Reichert has also created a special project in 15 pieces: a merino wool scarf that bears on the material the characteristic signs of the passage of his painting machine.

Gallery hours: Monday through Friday / 3 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday by appointment. For info visit Ribot’s website.

Milan, Ribot presents Of ants and bees, solo exhibition by German artist Marco Reichert

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