Doris Marten | SIGNAL / NOISE Sculpted Colour
Groupshow with Wolfgang Flad and Minor AlexanderMainStage | 15. APR 2023 – AUG 2023
The MainStage hosted in spring 2023 a group show entitled Signal / Noise – Sculpted Colour. The Signal-to-Noise-Ratio usually describes the level difference in the transmission of the actual signal and the noise floor induced by the recording and/or the transmission itself be it on the sending or the receiving side. In this sense we must wonder what happens if the Signal and the Noise become the same or at least are hardly separated.
In the case of this exhibition color and material are becoming inseparable. The form is shaped of colour, the colour is the substance of form. It is about colour as a material not colour as an adjective. It also leads us to think about the importance of subject matter. „There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.“, as the abstract artist Mark Rothko would say. Also Michael Fried’s essay on Art and Objecthood (1967) comes to mind where he states that „the shape is the object (…)“.
The Berlin artist DORIS MARTEN (*1971, lives and works in Berlin) paints symphonic arrangements of color yet not based on musical perception or to music. However, if there is a case where you can feel or even hear the colours vibrate it is with her painting. This is underlined by the fact that she often uses old vinyl records as a substrate for her paintings.





zu den anderen Austellenden Minor Alexander und Wolfgang Flad
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