Sidetracked
6–9pm
kajetan
Grolmanstr. 58
10623 Berlin ,
Charlottenburg
Opening Hours:
Thursday–Saturday
12–6pm
and by appointment.
Marc Nagtzaam | A Collection of Pages | 2025 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 59,6 x 46,3 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | The Space of Two Weeks | 2025 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 58 x 47 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | Unsettled Patterns | 2025 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 33,1 x 25 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | The Static | 2024 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 53 x 38,3 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | Flächen (Zeichnungen / Farben) | 2025 | Risographie (Unikat) / Unique Riso print | 43,2 x 31 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | Flächen (Zeichnungen / Farben) | 2025 | Risographie (Unikat) / Unique Riso print | 43,2 x 31 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | A Collection of Pages | 2025 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 59,6 x 46,3 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | The Space of Two Weeks | 2025 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 58 x 47 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | Unsettled Patterns | 2025 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 33,1 x 25 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | The Static | 2024 | Bleistift auf Papier / Graphite on paper | 53 x 38,3 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | Flächen (Zeichnungen / Farben) | 2025 | Risographie (Unikat) / Unique Riso print | 43,2 x 31 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam | Flächen (Zeichnungen / Farben) | 2025 | Risographie (Unikat) / Unique Riso print | 43,2 x 31 cm | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan.
Marc Nagtzaam (*1968, Helmond, NL) has been producing a body of work that is based on one main subject: the idea of pattern, the repetition. He draws lines, grids, circles, words or sentences as in an endless search for collecting all possible combinations. The repetition and the graphic structure of his works seems reminiscent of minimal and conceptual aesthetics. Most of Marc Nagtzaam ́s drawings consist of colourless, darkly filled in graphite surfaces. Abstracted elements from architecture, graphic design, details from found photographs, or parts from previous drawings are starting points for every series of works. This source material is being reduced, with basic, elementary means: dots, lines and flat surfaces, to construct a sort of structure. As Nagtzaam himself points out: “I’m looking for representations of a (seemingly) concrete reality as well as I search for images which can only exist as a drawing.”
More recently instead of working from carefully prepared sketches or ‘models’ Nagtzaam begins his drawings with only a roughly defined starting point, putting more emphasis on the moment of drawing instead of following a predefined track.
Next to his drawings Nagtzaam has been experimenting with digital collages, resulting in the artist publications Zeichnungen (2015) and Farben (2022), which both were printed with a Riso Duplicator. A new series of unique Riso prints, exploring the use of colour, will be included in the exhibition as well.