Martin Gerwers
at Art Antwerp 2022
O.T., 2022
Acrylic and car paint on MDF, 70 x 62 x 38 cm
EUR 14.000 (incl. VAT)
Martin Gerwer’s works are situated between the genres of painting, sculpture and relief. With them he examines the relationship between color and space.
In their multi-facetedness, the space-consuming sculptures by Gerwers can only be fully experienced by the viewer when he actively walks around the multi-colored objects. Depending on the viewer’s point of view, this results in a multitude of visual impressions.
While works directly related to spaces play an interplay between perception of the sculpture and perception of the viewer in space, the artist’s wall works show us how little we can rely on also being able to recognize or even define a picture / relief in an instant. Each movement of the viewer around such an object leads inevitably and with great surprise effects to sometimes total changes in appearance.
O.T., 2022
Acrylic and car paint on MDF, 70 x 62 x 38 cm
EUR 14.000 (incl. VAT)
Martin Gerwers originally comes from painting. These two untitled paintings from 2020, which are painted on wood and emerge into the room, can be read as two-dimensional unwindings of one sculpture each. All three horizontally juxtaposed surfaces can be understood as respective sides of an object on a triangular ground plan, so that one can imagine turning the flat panels into objects again and then placing three elements on top of each other.
Martin Gerwers (*1963, lives and works in Düsseldorf) completed his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. From 2015 to 2018 he was a visiting professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He was awarded the Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Kunst in 1995 and the prestigious award Ars Viva Malerei 96/97, Kunstpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI in 1996/1997. In 2001/2002 he benefited from the Förderungsstipendium des Kunstfonds Bonn.