Exhibition
Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt
15.10.2023 - 16.06.2024

Marco Stanke (*1987) was born 60 years after Alf Lechner (1925-2017). Nevertheless, their artistic positions exhibit multi-layered references. In Stanke's paintings, the canvas is not just a support. Rather, his works are spatial structures made of nettle, stretcher frames and paint. Stanke folds, cuts, bends, stacks and pierces the canvases and tests the physical limits of the image, which he extends into the space. His works are part picture, part relief or sculpture, and it is only in the interplay of these different "parts", as Stanke himself calls them, that the complete picture emerges in the end.

This is the most obvious connection to Lechner, whose sculptures must also be seen as fragments of a continuous working process. Central to this is his practice of division, as a result of which spatial relationships between the fragments and the viewer can be explored and material-related production processes can be revealed, in line with his maxim: "By dividing, it is possible to learn more about the whole."

This approach is echoed in the title of the catalog teil's teil's, which is to be understood as an invitation to delve deeper into materials. Furthermore, the title also suggests that something cannot be clearly categorized and thus refers to the combination of Stanke's and Lechner's works and the mixed nature of the exhibition