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Martin Spengler's exhibition Creatio Ex Aliquo shows his new reliefs and sculptures shaped from corrugated cardboard blocks using his distinctive technique in which he paints with gesso, and then emphasizes the cut edges with graphite. His works invite us to reflect on the changes and ambivalences of German society over time and to engage with current issues of our coexistence.

Vernissage
Thursday, 14 September, 6 – 9 pm

Special opening hours for Berlin Art Week
Friday, 15 September, 11am – 9pm
Saturday, 16 September, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, 17 September, 12am – 6pm

Artist Talk
Friday, 6 October, 6:30 – 9 pm

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Installation

Exhibited Works

Ideal 2021 (R) (Sollbruch), Ideal 2021 (L), 2021
Gesso, graphite and permanent marker on corrugated board
60 x40 x 12 cm | 23 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 4 3/4 in

Diptychon: Parkhaus (L) und Parkhaus (R), 2022
Gesso, graphite and permanent marker on corrugated board
180 x 135 x 13 | 70 7/8 x 53 1/8 x 5 1/8 in

Welle, 2023
Gesso, graphite and permanent marker on corrugated board
40 x 40 x 15,5 cm | 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 6 1/8 in

Collinicenter (Sollbruchstelle/Rechts), 2022
Gesso, graphite and permanent marker on corrugated board
180 x 100 x 23 cm | 70 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 9 in

Collinicenter II (Links), 2022
Gesso, graphite and permanent marker on corrugated board
180 x 100 x 23 cm | 70 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 9 in

Collinicenter, 2022
Gesso, graphite and permanent marker on corrugated board
221 x 41 x 42 cm | 87 x 16 1/8 x 16 1/2 in

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About the artist

Martin Spengler

MARTIN SPENGLER

Born 1974 in Cologne, Germany
Lives and works in Munich, Germany

Martin Spengler explores structures and patterns of order. The motifs for his works – contemporary cityscapes, skyscrapers, facades, towers and Gothic cathedrals – he finds in image files and sketches that serve as models for detailed preliminary drawings. Spengler is especially interested in the temporality and the fragility of seemingly architecture, and its function to represent social utopias and boundaries.