Name/Title
OperaEntry/Object ID
2024.07.01Description
Marlon Kroll (b. 1992 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German-born Canadian artist who lives and works in Montreal.
Krull's artistic practice investigates drawing in its multifaceted aspects: from conceptual ideas and spontaneous gestures to deliberate marks, the passage of time, intuitive actions, and the physical act of making. While recognized for both sculpture and wall-based works, a profound respect for lines serves as a unifying thread throughout his art.
There's often a connection between the artist's sculptures and drawings. It is a reciprocal relationship. Elements and principals of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional space are experimented with and merged, leading towards abstraction. A sculpture might manipulate flat, two-dimensional elements like lines and shapes into something with depth and form. Similarly, a drawing would see the definition of forms and their boundaries rendered on a two-dimensional plane.
Kroll's work aims to be evocative and unspecific, encouraging subjective interpretation and daydreaming. While grounded in formal elements of design, the ultimate goal is to create works that exist that are open in their meaning and encourage subjective responses.Artwork Details
Medium
coloured pencil and acrylic on muslin over panelDimensions
Height
50.8 cmWidth
12.7 cm