Biography

Since the 1990's Michael Raedecker receives international recognition for his paintings depicting conventional forms such as landscapes, still-lifes, draperies, ruins or houses with a totally unconventional technique. His combination of classical painting and forms of sewing, stitching and embroidering allows a particular engagement with the way texture and physicality can determine a surface. The stitched threads structure his paintings, highlight details and function within the interaction of colour and imagery as both connecting and fragmenting means. Raedecker chooses familiar motifs, like everyday objects, fabrics or generic architecture to generate a certain atmosphere rather than to create a narrative context. Thus, his works develop a distinct formal language that uses figuration as an artistic means among others, leaving space for the viewer's own associations.