Marc Molk is an allegorical painter, a miniaturist writer, and a performer. He is also an activist and a video composer, obsessed with the idea of confession. His work is intended to be as protean as his life: « a jigsaw made from the missing pieces of a hundred other jigsaws. »
« I would like to set allegories out of their out-datedness: my allegories are light, nearly realistic while still paradoxical. I am wary of pathos in general. Images impose themselves to me: I end up painting them to get rid of them, to let them go. I could go on at length about such and such theoretical or technical aspect, but with each added word, I feel I'm lessening the point of my works, emptying them of their substance. In any case, I do not own their meaning. Ultimately, I hope my paintings will be liked, as simple as that, simple and silly maybe: I hope that, magically somehow, they will bring to me those with whom love or friendship is a possibility. I use painting as my ambassador. »
‘Les Temps A Venir’
2010
162 x 130 cm
Oil & Acrylic
Humanity is presented in a visual of utter chaos.Underneath the disco ball there is no redemption possible. Marc Molk has imagined a contrasted image where a group of nightclubbers seem to sink into the world's wilderness. The background thus refers to our globalized jungle.
‘Temps Calme’
2010
300 x 215 cm
Oil &
This canvas was first an exotic landscape. As part of a performance, the public was able to participate and express itself. Marc Molk wanted to reveal the affluence of thoughts and images that are shed within ourselves. When freed from bounderies, the mind becomes a wild place and destroys order as shown in this piece. Chaos is within ourselves.
