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Silence 78
In this original monotype woodblock print on paper, the artist has created an ethereal façade from images of dramatic and idyllic scenes. Through a process of building up layers and textures, the picture has slowly transitioned from representational to abstract.
Martin Werthmann’s work presents an aesthetically engaging series of patterns and textures that reveal tension and subtle melancholy. He creates his motifs and patterns from found images of dramatic events like car accidents and explosions, then juxtaposes them with more beatific scenes such as picturesque landscapes and water surfaces. The artist’s teeming patterns and diffused imagery reveal the history of the work’s making through built-up layers, resulting in an immersive visual experience.
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Martin Werthmann’s work presents an aesthetically engaging series of patterns and textures that reveal tension and subtle melancholy. He creates his motifs and patterns from found images of dramatic events like car accidents and explosions, then juxtaposes them with more beatific scenes such as picturesque landscapes and water surfaces. Werthmann’s attraction to catastrophe comes from the symbolism of societal disruption as a break from the patterns of daily life. The artist’s teeming patterns and diffused imagery reveal the history of the work’s making through built-up layers, resulting in an immersive visual experience.
Martin Werthmann was born in 1982 and lives in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany (2004-2009).
Werthmann has mounted solo shows at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Germany (2022); Heldenreizer Contemporary in Munich, Germany (2020); and Galerie Tore Suessbier in Berlin, Germany (2019).
Werthmann designed the scenery and backdrop for the opera Die Tote Stadt at Theatre Bremen in 2019.
In this original monotype woodblock print on paper, the artist has created an ethereal façade from images of dramatic and idyllic scenes. Through a process of building up layers and textures, the picture has slowly transitioned from representational to abstract.More
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