This exhibition brings together the work of Marc Angeli and Sophie Ko in an exploration of matter, time, and the spiritual dimension of painting.
Although their approaches differ greatly, both artists share a deep trust in the vital energy of matter and in the capacity of painting to make change, transience, and presence tangible.
Since the 1980s, Marc Angeli has explored the possibilities of the monochrome as a living, organic form of painting. His panels in wood and alabaster, painted with wine, honey, pollen, and pigment, continue to react over time to air and light. The painting thus becomes not a fixed image, but an organism that breathes, ages, and evolves.
Angeli’s practice resonates with the tradition of the monochrome, from Malevich to Rothko, yet brings it back to the earth: to matter that ages, breathes, and embodies time.
Sophie Ko works with ash, gold, earth, and other materials that bear the traces of transformation and loss. In her work, matter functions as a carrier of memory and as a threshold between the visible and the invisible. Her images evoke the imaginal, an intermediate realm where
substance and meaning meet. Her art is not an escape from reality, but another way of seeing it: with eyes that look beyond the surface.
Marc Angeli and Sophie Ko present two complementary visions of painting as a process, no longer as representation, but as a living practice in which matter, time, and spirit are interwoven.
This duo presentation invites the viewer to look slowly – to attend to what changes, disappears, and reappears – and explores how painting today can function as a process of metamorphosis: between emergence and disappearance, between earth and spirit, between the visible and the invisible.
This duo exhibition brings together two complementary visions of painting as process: no longer as representation, but as a living practice in which matter, time and spirit are intrinsically intertwined. The presentation invites the viewer to engage in slow looking — to attend to what changes, disappears and re-emerges — and explores how painting today can function as a process of metamorphosis: between emergence and dissolution, between earth and spirit, between the visible and the invisible.