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In his extensive, consistent oeuvre, Martin Schnur (Vorau 1964) playfully relates painting and installation, surface and space, thus also drawing on his sculpture training, which he completed with Joannis Avramidis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In precisely worked, large-format oil paintings, Schnur dedicates himself to the thematic complex of man in the landscape but breaks with common visual habits and creates moments of irritation: In the process, different levels of painting and reality, images within the image, and overlapping landscapes are created. Water surfaces on which the sky, clouds, and trees are reflected, as well as repeatedly (broken) mirrored surfaces that fragment the landscape, form a fictitious backdrop for Schnur's protagonists. These usually move alone - accompanied only by their mirror image - in front of the multi-perspectival landscapes. Schnur takes up the theme of reflection and the associated refraction of light as a recurring motif in his painting and plays with the changes of perspective that present themselves.
What do we actually see? What can we guess? What remains hidden from us?
