Martin Assig

Martin Assig, born in 1954, is a prominent proponent of contemporary German painting. One of his passions is thrift store artworks, which he collects and uses as canvases for his own paintings executed in the old technique of encaustic. Leaving part of the original artwork visible in his overpaintings, Assig combines a trivial aesthetic with highly complex undulating lines, writings, and geometric patterns. He merges mundane romanticism and pastose abstraction into a kind of Art brut of the 21st century. "Vases, Summits, Humans" is another testimony to Martin Assig's sophisticated and idiosyncratic approach to painting.