STANZE a duo exhibition including artworks by Matthias Weischer (Elte, Germany, 1973) and Flavio De Marco (Lecce, Italy, 1975) is on view at Fondazione Coppola between May 6 and September 17 in the spaces of the Porta Castello's Torrione, Vicenza (IT), accompanied by a critical text by Davide Ferri.
Matthias Weischer's works focus on uninhabited, enigmatic spaces and environments, suspended between a before and an after, between the disappearance and the silent expectation of human presence and happening. The rooms painted by the artist are thus half-empty, temporarily abandoned environments, stripped of elements of reality, places where the sense of waiting is amplified through the introduction of other spaces within the rooms, paintings and mirrors (thus images within images) frequently hanging on the walls of the rooms.
Weischer's works, moreover, are scores in which space is defined through a long process of layering, which gives the painting a vibrant material presence, like a sensitive skin that is also, inevitably, a dimension of time.
About the artist
Matthias Weischer lives and works in Leipzig (DE). He studied at the Leipzig Academy, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in 2000 and his Master’s degree in 2003. In 2004, Weischer was chosen as the protégé of the British artist David Hockney through the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative. In 2005 Weischer participated in the Prague Biennale (CZ) and the 51st Venice Biennial (IT). Matthias Weischer’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Drents Museum, Assen (NL); Museo Arte de Ponce, Ponce (PR); Kunsthalle,Mainz (DE); CAC Málaga - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (ES) and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (DE).
Weischer has a forthcoming solo exhibition at GRIMM, New York, NY (US) opening October 20, 2023.
His work can be found in institutional and private collections, including AkzoNobel ArtFoundation, Amsterdam (NL); AMC Collezione Coppola, Vicenza (IT); Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken (DK); Drents Museum, Assen (NL); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (US); Kunstmuseum,The Hague (NL); Rubell Museum, Miami, FL and Washington, DC (US); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL); G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig (DE); Olbricht Foundation, Berlin (DE); Pinault Collection, Paris (FR); Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main (DE); The Saatchi Gallery, London (UK); Telegraph Foundation, Olomouc (CZ); Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK) among others.
