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Markus Saile walks us through his current exhibition “False Horizon”.

False Horizon, points to the tendency to search for references to reality within the paintings without being able to verify them with certainty. A false horizon is, first and foremost, a perceptual disturbance that occurs when a horizontal line is mistakenly interpreted as the horizon. The coordinates by which we locate ourselves in space are fundamentally shaken. Saile’s paintings, however, do not make any claim to a ‘correct’ horizon. The coordinates by which we locate ourselves in space are fundamentally shaken. Saile’s paintings, however, do not make any claim to a ‘correct’ horizon. Their abstract pictorial spaces are negotiated and modulated performatively on the surface through the act of painting, thereby also evoking references to the potentially infinite space of digital 3D modeling.

Excerpt from the text by Mareike Dittmer

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Video by Alexa Weiss @nidamazonalexa

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