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"Some of his lines seem to leave the canvas, become invisible for us, and travel to a parallel universe where the distorted echo of the question Why painting? is still audible. But space-time curvature reshapes the lines and sends them back to the terrestrial canvas, where they become paintings that can do everything." Peter Fischli
In Outline, Emil Michael Klein’s second solo exhibition at Ilenia, the artist presents a new series of paintings, a curtain and a monotype, that synthesize his practice to four essential elements: line, colour, surface, and form.
Coming to abstraction from a background in folk art, sculpture and graffiti, Klein’s work has long been rooted in repetition, process, and instinct. After more than two decades of making, this body of work reflects a distilled understanding of what continues to drive his practice. As Klein says, “I’m realizing that it’s mostly about process and movement”. In Outline, that realization becomes both subject and method.
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"Some of his lines seem to leave the canvas, become invisible for us, and travel to a parallel universe where the distorted echo of the question Why painting? is still audible. But space-time curvature reshapes the lines and sends them back to the terrestrial canvas, where they become paintings that can do everything." Peter Fischli
In Outline, Emil Michael Klein’s second solo exhibition at Ilenia, the artist presents a new series of paintings, a curtain and a monotype, that synthesize his practice to four essential elements: line, colour, surface, and form.
Coming to abstraction from a background in folk art, sculpture and graffiti, Klein’s work has long been rooted in repetition, process, and instinct. After more than two decades of making, this body of work reflects a distilled understanding of what continues to drive his practice. As Klein says, “I’m realizing that it’s mostly about process and movement”. In Outline, that realization becomes both subject and method.
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