A Table in Tuebingen

Can “values”,  a concrete term, a means to draw or paint, and “universal”, a concept, lead me to Leo Marchutz’s “inside out” ?

At first, “inside out” suggests that I put what’s inside me outside on a canvas, a paper. Looking at Leo Marchutz’s paintings, drawings or lithographes: Sainte Victoire, streets of Aix, Venice, or religious paintings, it seems to me that “inside out” can also be taken as a universal law of life.

In Leo Marchutz’s work, life flows from inside to outside in everything. When I materialize my inside, my vision, emotion, sensibility on a canvas, in fact there is a larger inside which is flowing from me, and which is also flowing from the inside of my motif, the subject I choose. Is one conscious about this? I think for Marchutz it is yes.

Marchutz’s paintings are only values, touches of values, open lines. Light seems to be the substance that Leo Marchutz is using to express his vision. Sometimes I wonder if his real subject is the motif he chose or if the motif is a pretext to express the universal law of life. Here the particular manifests the universal, here they are One. Light opens a body, erases a line, creates nuances. Through the open lines and their modulations, life emerges. Marchutz’s characters or mountains or architecture are fluid, moving open volumes, totally connected with the outside, interwoven with the space they breath. Because this light is like a breath. In Leo Marchutz’s work inside and outside are One.