“Tiergarten” is the first public presentation of Flavio de Marco’s eponymous series of works on paper and his first show at the gallery Christian Ehrentraut in Berlin.
During 27 days in the winter of 2013-2014 and in all weather conditions, de Marco went to the Berlin Tiergarten to make “plein air” drawings of various spots throughout the park. Each of those days and every drawing was under the motto of one of Mozart’s 27 piano concertos. Yet, the working process stands in stark contrast to the standardized sobriety of the works: drawn with standard marker pens on DIN formats, within a given color spectrum and with juxtaposed, never overlapping line drawings, the works seem strangely dissociate.
De Marco develops new ideas of perspective with his drawings and his conceptual painting of landscapes. They are converted into a window on an unreal, flat and sometimes closer world on the computer screen. Schematic menu bars on the upper edges of his canvasses refer to the “windows” of computer operating systems, through which the world is perceived to a new physical experience, seeming as real as a walk in nature. Elements of computer software disturb the image and indicate the space of the screen.
When: until February, 14th
Where: Christian Ehrentraut – Friedrichstrasse 123 – 10117 Berlin
