98% Undrinkable Water | Marc Ubermensch Collage

Artist Statement (Short Version) My artistic practice is precise, quiet, fast and clean. Merging a spectrum of coloured papers with adhesives, previously designed motives materialise on wooden board. Besides the uniform colouration and the simple processing, I use paper due to its importance as an information carrier before magnetic and digital storage media emerged, since the transfer of knowledge and emotions is the reason for my artistic practice. My tool set includes guillotines, scalpels and scissors. My geometric cubistic style results from the following working steps: the theme’s dissection, the simplification of the figurative resulting in geometric forms and lastly the encryption of the thus gathered perceptions. The forms I use are inspired by architecture, geometry and finally the anatomy of vision itself, namely the cones and rods (triangles and strips) of the retina. Colours, shapes and the symbolic relationship between the two are of great importance to understand what is depicted. The viewer assembles what is displayed and is rewarded with a result that is more identifiable to him than a realistic image. The art piece’s title serves as a decryption key. Similar to an encrypted computer file’s content, the viewer has difficulties comprehending the content beyond the aesthetic surface without the “key”. Thematically my works have mostly sociopolitical themes, others for instance depict landscapes.

Collage:Paper on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 39.4 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.