Martin Wehmer：Re-Colored

HOW Art Museum is pleased to announce that Re-Colored, solo exhibition of Martin Wehmer, will be on view from 10th September, 2023. Presented in Gallery 2 on 3F of the museum.

This exhibition traces the phases of Martin Wehmer's creative work in China to date. The artist features a total of 19 paintings in this exhibition specially curated for HOW Art Museum.

During an artist residency in 2008, the German painter Martin Wehmer (b. 1966), who had been living in Freiburg until then, decided to shift his life to China. In the following year, he achieved notoriety as the curator of the Beijing 798 Biennial, the first biennial in Beijing's Dashanzi art district, which attracted international attention.

Impressions of his Chinese everyday life can be read in Martin Wehmer's painterly style of expression, his subjects and titles. His works are painted very impasto with a generous style and convey energy, power and dynamism.In this way he creates a strong plasticity in the depiction while at the same time reducing and condensing the motif. With Martin Wehmer, the banality of the motif is aesthetically exaggerated and becomes a painterly discourse on abstraction and dealing with painting: formally, gesturally and technically. At the same time, completely abstract color schemes and patterns were created, in which he used not only impasto and relief-like paint but also ribbons and wooden strips as color and surface structuring means.