Marcel Schwittlick

Red wip (Composition #96), 2024

Red solid pigment ink plotted on a HP 7550B Plus vintage plotter signed on verso

21 x 29,7 cm

Marcel Schwittlick works with analog and digital mediums possessing a keen interest in randomness and control that technologies provide. He often uses plotting machines or printers to produce vibrant images containing abstract forms akin to patterns, fields of color, or geometric lines. The work Red wip (Composition #96) is an autoreferential plenum of visual unit.

With it Schwittlick strives for aesthetic autonomy, attempting to rid his work of any mimetic or paradigmatic aspects, leaving only the pictorial quality and rhythm. Thus, image, understood and created in this way, depend on purely formalistic qualities encoded by Marcel’s tendency to erode analog/digital mediums, and are, finally, decoded by the viewer, through analyzing pictorial facets – compositions, colors, forms, space, and even movement.

Marcel Schwittlick studied Media Computing at University of Applied Sciences Berlin from 2010-2013, and Generative Art at University of Arts Berlin from 2019-2022. He lives and works in Berlin