Marcel Gähler

Marcel Gähler’s images of alienation from reality exist outside of time. They portray mortality and losing one's grip on reality in pictures which are unspectacular–there are no great gestures, no posing, no breaching of taboos, no reference to current topics. Gähler only ever suggests. He allows flashes of light to break through the darkness and an even deeper darkness to emerge from the impenetrable blackness of the night. Here too, the uncanny derives not from hints of past crimes or lurking monsters. His painting drives us towards the limits of our perception. It makes it disconcertingly clear that seeing nothing does not imply that nothing is there. Gähler understands how to create a vacuum and then punctuate it with shafts of seeing.

He has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, and Kunsthalle Winterthur. His work has been presented in group exhibitions at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, Museum Bärengraben, Zürich, and  Smack Mellon Gallery in New York, among others.

Courtesy of Aeroplastics Contemporary