My work is driven by my interest in fragmentation and the limits of what painting can represent. In my practice the painted surface is a starting point, material I take apart and rebuild through cutting, reassembling, and stitching. In larger pictorial-textile works, landscape imagery is pulled into tension with abstraction through deconstruction and reorganization. Smaller works begin with paint’s movement across paper, cut and transferred to canvas, a web of gesture emerges.
Manuel Rickert is a German visual artist based in Berlin. His practice begins with painting as an open process of transformation. By cutting, reassembling, and stitching painted canvases, he creates distinctive pictorial-textile works in which painterly gestures and representational fragments are brought into tension with disruption and reorganization. His deconstructed, often monochrome landscapes explore the aesthetic construction of nature. Rickert’s works have been exhibited internationally and are held in private collections in Europe and Latin America.