Markus Saile
He was born in Stuttgart, in 1981. He lives and works in Cologne.
He was born in Stuttgart, in 1981. He lives and works in Cologne.
Markus Saile’s works convene the space of painting, in a subtle interplay between the space where it is situated, the space it represents and the space it constructs in dialogue with architecture. The in between space, in between the paintings, creates a space where we stand and move, as viewers. Pictorial problems thus can be understood as architectural problems, in the sense of a socio-political structure. Beyond the in-situ and context, it is an investigation into painting in volume, the depth of the surface, and the extension of this practice into a performative field of action.
The current paintings are created in a process of overlapping layers of paint and thin veils that reveal their material life. Paint deposits accumulate at the edges of the supports, revealing the temporal structure of the painting process like the annual rings of a tree and lending them an object-like quality. Gestural interventions dramatize the pictorial space in the sense of a stage situation. The conceptual work with the painterly gesture thus can be understood as a kind of performative re-enactment of its historical, temporal and spatial potentials. In the painting process, the artist creates volume in one brush movement, like they do on Blender to create forms. His method can therefore be related to the extrusion process in 3D programs. Instead of putting a series of points together in a line, which is the drawing perspective work, one brush flow creates a plane in one gesture.
Markus Saile´s (*1981 in Stuttgart) work was featured in numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums. Recent solo exhibitions among others where Everything Folds, Drei, Cologne, EDGE TO EDGE Mai 36 Galerie Zurich, Scala A+B Gallery Brescia and separate | related NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein and Das und gleicht dem Chamäleon Galerie Markus Luettgen, Dusseldorf. He was part of the painting survey show “Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland”, at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz-Museum Gunzenhauser and Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Further his works were featured in numerous solo and groupshows among others at Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, Bel Amis, Los Angeles, Museo Licini, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Pinacoteca Emilio Notte Ceglie Messapica, Italy, Markus Lüttgen Dusseldorf, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Galerie Crone Vienna, Mai 36 Zurich, Arp Museum Rolandseck, Strabag Kunstforum Vienna, Galerie DREI Cologne and RECEPTION Berlin.