5 Jahre Arbeit

Philip Emde & Stefan Marx

Info: Philip Emde (1976, DE) and Stefan Marx (1979, DE) present 5 Jahre Arbeit with Ruttkowski;68 in Düsseldorf. The exhibition is a culmination of five years of collaborative summer painting sessions of the artists and longterm friends at Emde’s studio in Neustadt (DE). It began five years ago as a shared experimantation on a large, vintage hand screen-printing table and evolved to an ongoing exploration of process and form. Together with their friend, expert and technical advisor Björn Wiede on their side, they delved into the possibilities of this technique. The resulting works are a series of monotypes on canvas, characterized by a painterly aesthetic and a reduced color palette of black, white, and red. Using various rounded joysticks Emde and Marx work their motif through the paint-coated screen, achieving differing line qualities and thicknesses. This technique allows for both to emerge a positive and negative work of the same motif. (…)