Markus Amm

Markus Amm’s work explores the very essences of painting, pigment, abstraction and perception. Amm is interested in the process of making, placing particular importance on the time in which he is not actively painting, but observing his work. He spends long periods making each piece and so this time – the wait for completion, the perception of the piece forming – is elongated. Amm’s paintings, in which colours gradually bleed into one another, are reminiscent of photographic light leaks, in which the dark chamber of a camera is penetrated, and film is exposed to diffuse, fragmented light. They are able to convey a distinct sense of temperature, as if they are the visualisation of the inside of a kiln or perhaps a glacier.