黑料不打烊

Painting goes beyond the frame. It holds a power that reaches far beyond the boundaries of the painting into the world. It is a power that can cause fear, irritation and resistance, and bring well-being and healing. It is located between departure and tradition, it is colour, sound and form, which the material becomes and as which we resonate, as painters as well as viewers. It is formative, agitational, ordering, disturbing, strong. 

These inherent powers of painting do not depend on whether it is figurative or abstract, monochrome or polychrome, whether the paintings were created in our times or 30,000 years ago as cave paintings. They are energies that emanate from painting and at the same time dominate painting itself: superpowers. They are journeys in time, capturing the past and anticipating the future, revealing the invisible. Painting is gift and poison at the same time: 鈥濻ugar and Spice鈥�, full of passion, zest and sweetness. A power that is fed, among other things, by the fact that painting is created out of nothing, obeying an inner mandate, a trust in the material that rests in the primal trust in its own rules and laws, in its very own gaze. 

This passion, which is sharp and sweet in one, seductive and dangerous, which works in and with painting, is the title of the exhibition 鈥濻UGAR and SPICE鈥� in the SCOTTY project space. The first exhibition in the series curated by Bettina Wei脽 opens on 31.03.2023 at 7 p.m. and closes on 06.05.23. It shows works by 37 artists whose juxtapositions and collaborations give rise to frictions, refusals, references and cooperations that, in short, open up a power space of painting.