Galerie Max Mayer

Klaus Merkel

Info: Over the last four and a half decades, Merkel’s work in the medium of painting has combined the concepts of display, discourse and abstraction in a way that is unique to him. The decisive moment for his practice came in the early 1990s with the seven panels Katalogbilder, on which he repainted his previous work side by side on a miniature scale and shifted its status. This led to a way of working that we find in the exhibition Touretten: Pictures that question the ideas of authenticity, uniqueness and the chimera of value linked to them and also provide a commentary avant la lettre on the visual structure of our digital world. (…)