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Marco Stanke / Alf Lechner
The artistic positions on display have separated each other for over 60 years and yet Stanke and Lechner share a fascination for the process and the material. While Stanke explores the basic conditions of painting, Lechner lays the Traces of industrial production of his sculptures as an integral part of his Factory open. However, both positions differ in their media composition distinct from each other, causing the individual “parts” to be fragmented into an exciting Correspondence with each other.
In the paintings by artist Marco Stanke (*1987), the canvas not only proves to be the carrier of the picture, but also as a spatial structure of nettle, stretcher frame and paint. Stanke's work oscillates between “pictorial field” and “pictorial world,” which tests the physical limits of the image and playfully abolishes the difference between what is “visually visible” and “in which” it is visible. By folding, cutting, bending and piercing the canvases, Stanke exceeds the traditional limits of painting and expands the pictorial world into space. Part image, part object, a new attempt at entanglement is visible on each new canvas, which is accessible to the artist as “part of a collective” in the context of the work.
In this regard, there is a connection to Alf Lechner (*1925 - 2017), whose sculptures must also be regarded as fragments of a continuous work process. Lechner used the material practice of division as an artistic tool to explore spatial relationships between the pieces and the observer and at the same time reveal the process of production as a material-related process.
Both artistic positions are combined by a fascination for the process and the material. While Stanke explores the basic conditions of painting, Lechner reveals the traces of industrial production of his sculptures as an integral part of his work. Nevertheless, both positions differ significantly from each other in their media composition, causing the individual “parts” to be fragmented into an exciting
Correspondence with each other.
Share share is the first exhibition by the new curator Dominik Bais, who has taken over the curatorial direction of the museum since July 2023 and thus takes over the work of previous curator Daniel McLaughlin. The exhibition is also the largest museum exhibition of the work of the young painter Marco Stanke.
Short biographies of artists
Marco Stanke was born in 1987 in Bad Aibling. He began studying painting in 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg with Prof. Thomas Hartmann. From 2015, he studied in parallel with Prof. Pia Fries at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In the same year, he was appointed master student by Prof. Hartmann. He completed his studies at the AdBK Nuremberg in 2018 and at the AdBK Munich in 2019, where he has lived and worked as an artist ever since. Marco Stanke received 1st prize in the Nürnberger Nachrichten Art Prize in 2015 and was nominated for the Federal Prize for Art Students in 2017. In 2019, he was awarded the Debutant Funding from the Free State of Bavaria. In addition, he received the art promotion prize from Kunstclub 13 in Munich in 2021.
Alf Lechner (1925-2017), born in Munich, is considered one of the most important German steel sculptors. In the more than sixty years of his sculptural work, he created more than 800 sculptures and over 4500 drawings. His work is always about the relationship between technology and art, material and production, process and matter, calculation and chance. Lechner founded the Alf Lechner Foundation in 1999 and opened the Lechner Museum in Ingolstadt in 2000. From 2001 until his death in 2017, Lechner lived and worked with his wife Camilla in Obereichtstätt.
Exhibition views by: Studio Hetzer
