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until 24.06. | #4684ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from Friday, 02. May 2025 the exhibition Realität und Erinnerung – Die Erschließung der Welt by the artist Marcel Gähler.
„In many ways his drawings touch on things that are universal but nearly impossible to express verbally, distant memories, emotions, deep feelings of love or loss. – A kind of longing for something deep within.“ Rebecca Kerlin, Philadelphia, 2016
The Swiss artist Marcel Gähler, born in Zurich in 1969, lives and works in Winterthur. The publications on the artist by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Edition Patrick Frey and Ringier Kunstverlag, both Zurich, by Laurence King Publishing, London and by Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, are particularly noteworthy.
Marcel Gähler likes to work in the medium of drawing; the layout of the sheets and all the valeurs are entrusted to the graphic line. The silverpoint works and large-format watercolors are also created in black and white and open up further painterly and atmospheric possibilities for the works, with the same expressive quality. The innovative approach also relates to the relationship to photography and the way in which it is made useful for a certain experience of the world and the transformation in the medium of drawing.
The elaborate process includes several intermediate stages, culminating in the graphite and silverpoint drawing. The artist gains extraordinary possibilities from them in the reproduction of the reality he himself has already conveyed. The continuum of the dense line structure, the gray values and gradations constitute a pictorial reality of great narrative immediacy. At the same time, the pictures elude direct access, the objects dissolve into light, dematerialize, seem timeless and saturated with memory.
Opening: Friday, 2. May 2025, noon to 6 pm
Exhibition period: : Friday, 2. May until Tuesday, 24. June 2025
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Title image caption: Silberstiftzeichnung, 2024, 9,5 x 12,5 cm auf 29,5 x 37 cm
Exhibition Marcel Gähler – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
