Markus Baldegger is a Swiss-born painter now based in Belgium and Germany, whose paintings are rich in texture from countless layers of applied paint and chalky deposits of grey sediment from the many pigments used. He approaches painting more cognitively; the aim of his work is not narrative but is reduced rather to the possibilities of color itself. For Baldegger, painting is the opportunity to perceive things differently: different forms of light, changes of light, changes during the day, light in the early morning and in the evening. It is impossible for Baldegger to replicate a painting, as the thought is then gone, the situation has passed, and nothing can be repeated. The process of painting is dedicated to the moment, imponderable, versatile, and full of possibilities.

Baldegger's expressive gestures - webs of fine nets covering the space in curves, ellipses, spirals, circle segments, and clusters - invoke abstract associations with nature. Delicate yet powerful, these marks seem to be created almost arbitrarily at first glance, however closer examination provides an insight into the artist's deep awareness of balancing coincidence and deliberate application, following its own pictorial sense. Baldegger's paintings are not only paintings but music for the eyes, containing lyrical pictures which develop gradually, generating an inner motion and rhythm.

Markus Baldegger (b. 1947, Altstätten, Switzerland) Markus Baldegger has had an extensive and successful career in Europe with museum exhibitions at the Siegerland Museum (Siegen, Germany), the County Museum (Heinsberg, Germany), the Leonhardi Museum (Dresden, Germany), and the Daniel-Pöppelmann Museum (Herford, Germany). He is representyed in a number of international collections including Kunstmuseum Aarau (Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Chur (Switzerland), Sammlung NRW (Aachen-Kornelimünster, Germany), and the Rechtanwaltskammer Bar Association (Hamm, Germany).