(born in Bergisch Gladbach in 1971)
Pink, 2007, in 2 parts, signed and dated on the reverse David Schnell 07, oil, acrylic on canvas, overall size: 290 x 460 cm, on stretcher, (PP)

Provenance:
Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin (labels and stamps on the reverse)
2007, acquired directly from the above by the present owner –
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Goslar, Mönchehaus Museum für moderne Kunst, David Schnell, Hover, 7 July – 28 September 2007 / Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Ponce, 2 December 2007 – 9 March 2008, exh. cat. ill.16; Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, David Schnell, Stunde / Uur / Hour, 10 April --– -30 May 2010 / Den Haag, GEM, museum voor actuele kunst, 7 July – 10 October 2010 / Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, exh. cat. pages 124, 125, ill. 39

Literature:
Kunstwerkstatt David Schnell, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2009, p. 6, ill.

The up-and-coming Leipzig painter David Schnell (b. 1971) employs elements of landscape in all of his edgy, large-scale canvases, but he is by no means a traditional landscape painter. A younger contemporary of Neo Rauch and Tim Eitel, Schnell uses oils, tempera and acrylics to render obsessive spaces that often feel as if they might engulf the viewer. Relying on very strong linear perspective and vanishing points to create his idiosyncratic pictorial order, […] he often seems to counteract that very order with a subliminal, hyperactive energy that buzzes through the paintings – perhaps suggesting a critical stance towards our treatment of nature in contemporary society.
[…] his works hinge on the use of central perspective, which is prominent in Renaissance art and which causes the horizon to become the most important element in the painting, both in terms of composition and content.

(David Schnell – Hover, Hatje Cantz, text by Dieter Daniels, Cheryl D. Hartup, Bettina Ruhrberg; David Schnell, Hatje Cantz, text by Ziba De Weck, Tina Schultz)