Mark Van Yetter

„The life of a painter is a life filled with time spent alone. Painting is an act of focused solitude. I often feel it is an action that helps to divert one from concrete thinking. In this way it is an escape from what others might describe as “practical logic”. Painters create a visual interpretation of something; they do this not from nothing, but from their own experience. In a sense, they create their own world in the hope that others might gain a notable experience from it.“
Mark Van Yetter

Formal decision-making as a way to create meaning in an artwork, will be the focus of the painting course by Mark van Yetter in Salzburg. He himself uses figurative and abstract language in his own paintings, addressed to issues related to power and human interaction. His work often engages with macabre subject-matter while using a formal language that is both humorous and uplifting, creating an unsettling and complex dynamic.

Mark Van Yetter, annoyingly delicious, 2016, oil on paper, Courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery
 

The American artist, based in Berlin, recently won the Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch grant and has been presented in exhibitions internationally for over a decade. We are really glad, that he will hold a course at the Summer Academy this year.