Regain

“Regain”, the unseen world Marc Krüger has no need of the seductive colours which all too often saturate the appearances of reality, and all too often mask the depths of its presence. The distance thus created by chromatic drying makes it easier to grasp the main outlines underlying the real world, and, subtly, to dramatise the song of the nagging world which lies hauntingly inside all of Marc Krüger’s works. And every act of creation is a gateway to otherness. In his work, the universe is made up of shadows and light, or rather of clarity and opacity - or even whiteness and blackness - with a tragic latency which accentuates the masterly tensions of the blacks and whites. Sweet, gentle greys are not his cup of tea. The proximity of abstraction nakedly searches the mysteries of the visible world. Marc Krüger’s landscapes are mirrors of strangeness and, when we see them, the human dwellings speak of hardly anything other than extinction. As in Hopper’s work, these implacable sleepers give themselves up to the dreamless. Tremors and vibrations are the final secret traces of the energies which stir up the expanse. As though unseen, the world with its eyes opened, shifting and reinvented by Marc Krüger, has an absolute innocence restored. The universe is an infinite enigma. Christian Noorbergen