Klaus Merkel
Stacks
2010

At a certain point of his career Klaus Merkel decided to make an inventory of his works painted so far. This inventory took the form of large-scale “Katalogbilder” basicially functioning as an index reproducing each painting in the scale of 1:10.

As an ongoing project Merkel invites collector’s or friends to chose different motifs (minimum 2, maximum 20) from this index. The chosen combination of motifs as well as a background colour. also determined by the future owner, are re-painted and combined by Merkel in his so-called Stacks. Merkel thereby takes a retrospective look at his work, bundles it, revises it, and updates it – en miniature and depicts at the same time the individual choices of the owner of the painting.