Paul Czerlitzki

DELAY
Konrad Fischer Galerie

The Canvas as a Witness to Presence and Absence

Paul Czerlitzki’s (b. Gdańsk, Poland, 1986; lives and works in Dusseldorf) painting practice experiments with the superimposition of temporal layers that emerge on monochrome color fields in the form of structures, dust particles, or impressions. Czerlitzki paints through the canvas to engender structures that form a negative imprint of the material. The canvas operates in the artist’s work not as a support but as a transfer medium: he stretches a second, untreated panel over a primed one and then impregnates it with acrylic paint, yielding a chromatic haze of varying intensity on the underlying canvas that eludes firm control. Conceiving painting as a laboratory, Czerlitzki thus visualizes the presence of different temporal and spatial constellations within the genesis of the picture.

Czerlitzki participated in the celebrated exhibition Now! Painting in Germany Today, which, after three editions in Bonn, Chemnitz, and Wiesbaden, concluded with a major survey show at Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen. Works by the artist were shown recently at Kunsthalle Bern and are held by the Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Kunstmuseum Bonn; the Collection Ricard and the Collection Billarant in Paris; the Fondation CAB, Brussels; Philara Collection, Dusseldorf; and the collection of G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, among others.

DELAY is Czerlitzki’s first monograph and showcases works from the past ten years. With essays by Adam Budak, Michal Budny, and Ulrich Loock.