December 04, 2020 — January 09, 2021

Marcel Freymond
— Staring at the Sea / Staring at the Sand

The exhibition Staring at the Sea. Staring at the Sand presents current paintings by Marcel Freymond. What captivate in Freymond’s painting are his masterful handling of color and the physicality of abstracted forms: thickly applied oil paint that becomes a relief, and an untiring lightness in his artistic work. In his most recent paintings, the Biel-based artist Marcel Freymond focuses on the horizon—a view into the distance at the Galerie König Büro. “Staring at the sea, staring at the sand” are lines of text from The Cure’s song Killing an Arab, which takes up a key scene in Albert Camus’s The Stranger. In it, the first-person narrator shoots a man due to apathy and an utter lack of orientation.

Marcel Freymond’s current works deal with detachment and lack of meaning. They are about existentialism, about dissolution and the acceptance and experience with which things on the horizon are each captured as specific objects. They are, however, not only what they directly appear to be, but can also even become invisible as a result of the environment surrounding them.

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Thanks to: Maren Brauner, Michael Stulz, Heinz Helle, Lenggenhager Druck
Photography: David Jäggi