- David Schnell
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the first solo show by David Schnell in Milan, opening at NOVO in Via Olmetto on September 21, 2022. The exhibition curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto in the independent experimental space of the gallery takes place until November 11, 2022.
The works conceived in the last nine years give an overview of the process of interweaving nature and architecture in David Schnell’s painting. This choice, inspired by a one-year stay in Rome in 2013, continues to be developed still today.
While earlier, the starting point of the German artist’s work consisted mainly of landscape subjects, in these paintings, the interaction between landscape elements and urban architecture from different ages brings to new spatial experience.
“His language blends, in fact, figuration and non-figuration, academia and technology, with the capacity of converting the ghosts of socialist realism into refined references to the art history ranging from ancient to historical avant-gardes”, as the curator Pier Paolo Pancotto writes.
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the first solo show by David Schnell in Milan, opening at NOVO in Via Olmetto on September 21, 2022. The exhibition curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto in the independent experimental space of the gallery takes place until November 11, 2022.
The works conceived in the last nine years give an overview of the process of interweaving nature and architecture in David Schnell’s painting. This choice, inspired by a one-year stay in Rome in 2013, continues to be developed still today.
While earlier, the starting point of the German artist’s work consisted mainly of landscape subjects, in these paintings, the interaction between landscape elements and urban architecture from different ages brings to new spatial experience.
“His language blends, in fact, figuration and non-figuration, academia and technology, with the capacity of converting the ghosts of socialist realism into refined references to the art history ranging from ancient to historical avant-gardes”, as the curator Pier Paolo Pancotto writes.
David Schnell, Pause, 2007Oil on canvas
45 x 80 cm
17 3/4 x 31 1/2 in
David Schnell, Ton, 2018Oil on canvas
290 x 460 cm, 2 parts, each 290 x 230 cm
114 x 181 in, 2 parts, each 114 x 90.5 in
David Schnell, Licht, 2017Oil on canvas
300 x 215 cm
118 1/8 x 84 5/8 in
David Schnell, Kabinett, 2017Etching on handmade paper
sheet: 69 x 55 cm
27 1/8 x 21 5/8 in
image: 50 x 41 cm
19 3/4 x 16 1/8 in
Edition 18 of 25
David Schnell, Via strata, 2013Oil on canvas
230 x 360 x 4 cm
90 1/2 x 141 3/4 x 1 5/8 in
David Schnell, Zinnwald, 2019Photogravure, embossing
70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
sheet: 70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
image: 49 x 31 cm
19 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
Edition 2 of 12
David Schnell, Palast, 2019Photogravure, embossing
heet: 70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Image: 49 x 31 cm
19 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
Edition 2 of 12
David Schnell, Miene, 2019Photogravure, embossing
sheet: 70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
image: 49 x 31 cm
19 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
Edition 5 of 12
David Schnell, Quartier, 2017Oil on canvas
300 x 215 cm
118 1/8 x 84 5/8 in
David Schnell, born in 1971 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, is an international contemporary German painter. From 1995 to 2000 he completed his studies at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Lipsia and now he is associated with the New Leipzig School. Afterwards he has been a Arno Rink’s master class student from 2000 to 2022.
His works represent colorful and geometric landscapes, spaces composed from the intersections of colorful bars through which create a dynamic and spatial kaleidoscope. His choices are based on the representation of countryside landscapes and familiar places, realized with a dynamic and energetic perspective, creating such an abstract nature that its result is impossible to recognize.
The internal velocity of his works leads to a destabilization and discussion of the time itself.
He attracts the viewer through the multicolored pictorial space, where the artificial architectonics elements violate the natural space. He takes into consideration and reflects the urban threats towards the nature showcasing the never-ending developments of contemporary globalization.
In 2010 Schnell held a personal exhibition at Stunde Kunstverein, Hannover, which he then exposed at Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and at the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen.
The artist was commissioned to project the “Friedensfenster” (Window of Peace) at Saint Thomas church, in Lipsia. In 2013 Schnell received the scholarship at Villa Massimo and in 2016 he was commissioned to project a window of Christuskirche Church in Cologne.
David Schnell, born in 1971 in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, is an international contemporary German painter. From 1995 to 2000 he completed his studies at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Lipsia and now he is associated with the New Leipzig School. Afterwards he has been a Arno Rink’s master class student from 2000 to 2022.
His works represent colorful and geometric landscapes, spaces composed from the intersections of colorful bars through which create a dynamic and spatial kaleidoscope. His choices are based on the representation of countryside landscapes and familiar places, realized with a dynamic and energetic perspective, creating such an abstract nature that its result is impossible to recognize.
The internal velocity of his works leads to a destabilization and discussion of the time itself.
He attracts the viewer through the multicolored pictorial space, where the artificial architectonics elements violate the natural space. He takes into consideration and reflects the urban threats towards the nature showcasing the never-ending developments of contemporary globalization.
In 2010 Schnell held a personal exhibition at Stunde Kunstverein, Hannover, which he then exposed at Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and at the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen.
The artist was commissioned to project the “Friedensfenster” (Window of Peace) at Saint Thomas church, in Lipsia. In 2013 Schnell received the scholarship at Villa Massimo and in 2016 he was commissioned to project a window of Christuskirche Church in Cologne.
- Claire Fontaine
- David Schnell
