Manoah Metzler – INFO

Have you ever been in the woods at night? There is hardly anything that feels freer than moving through a forest after dark – walking, then running. Ideally not alone. Ideally with a warm wind on your skin. That is where freedom lives, and that is what I try to carry into my work. I catch these moments on my phone, gathering fragments I can later piece back together into the moment, into the feeling. Back home, living the night’s route all over again, music in the background and a cold drink on the desk, I am happy. And then I paint. Until I am done – or until I really should be asleep. To get my impressions onto the canvas as fast and as fiercely as the moment itself, I mostly work with acrylics: within minutes I can lay down the next layer without it bleeding into the one beneath. That is how my paintings hold what I saw most clearly. More clearly than any photograph.

Out at Night