NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Jancou Contemporary OFFSITE NYC debuts a new body of work by Albrecht Schnider. Albrecht Schnider : Instant Phenomenon marks our fifth solo show with the artist and features 20 paintings, drawings, and sculpture pieces.

A limited edition artist notebook accompanies the exhibition, design by Hermann Hülsenberg Studio, Berlin and published by Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, 2015. Also accompanying the exhibition is a film capturing behind the scenes moments with Schnider at his studio, directed by Rita Ziegler (Film Production: Cineworx; Camera: Isabelle Casez; Editor: Valerie Smith, 2015).

Schnider is concerned with the bounds of perception where time, light and space meet to form an instant phenomenon. Created in 2014 and 2015, Schnider’s paintings represent a new direction of abstraction by the artist. Schnider uses a technic of repetitious, mantric movements wherein brush marks are wiped away and a new line set forth on the remnants of its predecessor. Through this exercise, we find formally meticulous lines now lyrical in their fluidity and curvature. While the paintings deliver this vision fully realized, the featured preparatory drawings give evidence of his evolving creative process.

Born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1958, Albrecht Schnider lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include shows at Helmhaus Zürich as well as shows at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; and Kunstmuseum Solothurn. His work is included in numerous public collections, including Kunsthaus Zürich; Kunstmuseum Bern; Kunstmuseum Lucerne; and Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne. Publications include Albrecht Schnider: Am Ereignishorizont (Berlin: Haus am Waldsee, 2011); Albrecht Schnider: Die Rückjseite des Spiegels (Nürnberg: Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 2011); and Albrecht Schnider: Das noch Mögliche (Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2006).