Marc Abele

The painter and illustrator Marc Abele could be described – entirely accurately – as a documenter of images because his works expressively document the characteristics that come from the brush and the pencil.

Characteristics, symbols and signs are central features of his pictures. With Marc Abele, the intellectual impulse for the work results from the choice of a subject, a verbal motto that interests him. By working intensively with a subject of this sort – the word “Between” is an example here – an indefinite number of new ideas for images come about.

One and the same word can trigger an unknown number of artistic possibilities and the inclination to document these on the image base, translated into symbolism. It is this uncertain number of artistic opportunities relating to a subject that provides Marc Abele with access to the major source, to the impulse for his actions: it is the source of inexhaustibility, which paradoxically, because of its vacuum, its endlessness and incomprehensibility, creates an allure and repeatedly stimulates new thought processes and images.

This motivating attraction leads the artist continually to develop new images, brings forth processes of perception, turns him into a researcher of images in the infinite. It is a form of overcoming prejudice, it is intellectual growth,  it is evolution. 

And yet essentially it is probably a case of flirting with the uncertainty of existence (and of the future): the question of the “something” that lies beyond all categories.

Email: art@marcabele.com

Website: marcabele.com