In November, the GfZK’s friends visited artist David Schnell in his studio in the west of Leipzig. David Schnell gave insights into his painting technique and inspiration for his pictures. He showed us some works for an upcoming exhibition that he has designed for the rooms of the Mies van der Rohe Haus in Berlin.
David Schnell’s landscape paintings reflect the manifestations of a nature that is infiltrated by our immediate, urban environment. Architectural set pieces occupy a more or less dominant position on the surface of the landscapes. David Schnell uses places such as the cultural landscape around Leipzig, where the former master student of Arno Rink lived and previously studied, as a source of motifs for his pictures. In his landscape observations, however, the artist does not evoke any real moments of memory. Instead, he shows an abstracted nature that is beyond any recognisability or concrete experience. (Text Gallery Eigen+Art)