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For about 15 years Marlis Albrecht has been using beeswax and pigments. In developing her work she takes the utmost care in the creative process to establish her grounds. The artist uses warm layers of beeswax, colored with pigments, to prime the raw wooden panels. In parts wax tempera is added and worked in.
Through incising and scratching away the layers, the thickness and density of the material, due to the working process, gets broken up and reduced. Layers underneath are revealed and visible again.

The artist regards this process as similar to psychological occurrences and human relationships.
These are the topics Marlis Albrecht has committed herself to.
Her figures serve as projection screens to show ambiguous games of presence and absence, devotion and avoidance.
Only at the surface does she imitate unity.
Every painting is a hypothesis, engaging the audience in permanent questioning and search for different interpretations .

This dialogical work gets us tangled in the process of complex perception and forces us in a very subjective way to trace interpersonal sentiments.
The paintings narrate psychic scenes of existential experiences: lust, longing for love, security, frustrations and the mechanisms to handle them, the fear of human beings regarding their fellow human beings or their own inabilities.

This all happens in an ironic, humorous, and poetic way- never being voyeuristic, intrusive, or accusing.
A silent art that deals with the contradictions of life and the enmeshment of happiness and grief.

Hockzeit

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
90x186cm

Sukkulenden

2007
beeswax, pigments on wood
41 x 124

Edgar, Ellen, Po II

2007
beeswax, pigments on wood
157 x 91

Semmelknödel an Morchelrahm

2008
bees wax, pigments on woood
114 x 114

Wunschkonzert

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
88 x 116

Sofa der Verlüstlingsfragen

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
150 x 116

Margot Müller und ihr Mops

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
111 x 44

Bodenseer

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
125 x 235

Marlen und Spitzendeckchen

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
80 x 86

Rückenfreifalter

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
70 x 120

Kräftesplit im Wiegeschritt

2006
beeswax, pigments on wood
131 x 90

Her mit der Schlange

2008
beeswax, pigments on wood
240 x 140

Spekulatius

2009
beeswax, pigments on wood
150 x 66

Vereinzelt Schauer

2009
beeswax, pigments on wood
114 x 220

Geht doch

2009
beeswax, pigments on wood
122 x 94

Verschüttet oder gerührt

2009
beeswax, pigments, tempera on wood
94 x 122

Wenn die Gondeln Frau Bauer tragen

2009
beeswax pigments on wood
9ß x 60

Johannesncht

2009
beeswax, pigments on wood
150 x 120

Anne-May denkt an Salome

2010
beeswax, pigments on wood
85 x 69