When Gravity Becomes Form | Veronese Reloaded by Rainer Splitt

The movement of paint, its specific shape and its spatial properties are at the heart of the artistic research of the Berlin artist Rainer Splitt (b. 1963). How can paint succeed in painting itself, regardless of the desire for expression and independent of a predetermined idea? Splitt pours the paint onto the surface, lifts the pictorial plane and runs the paint vertically. Expansion, coherence and gravity form an amazingly precise shape, a colorful drawing that paradoxically reverses our expectation of how fluids move and our idea of a droplet.

Contemporary painting meets High Renaissance in this exhibition of Splitt's latest large-format castings juxtaposed with the work of a 17th-century Veronese apprentice. Disegno (the drawing) not as a colored idea, but as an understandable form created by the gravity of the color.

Rainer Splitt's unique work has received many awards and has been featured in numerous international solo exhibitions in museums and galleries.