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The exhibition Marks and Bubbles brings together hand-painted prints by Julian Schnabel alongside a selection of paintings and a sculpture by Georg Dokoupil.

Schnabel’s pieces explore the concept of marks as both physical traces and artistic gestures. In a series of four skateboard triptychs—based on his 2001 Big Girl/Blind Girl series—imagery is printed on decks that were ridden by Eli Reed and Shooter Schnabel, leaving behind scuffs and scratches. Schnabel then overpainted the worn surfaces with his signature expressive marks. Similarly, Swedish House, a postcard-like image of rural Sweden—what the artist calls a “cliché of the perfect place”—is finalized with bold, painterly interventions.

Dokoupil, the German-Czech painter and sculptor, expands his iconic bubble motif into three dimensions with Homemade Venetian Bubbles—glass sculptures that introduce a temporal, physical presence to his work. Their title pays tribute to the craftsmanship of Bohemian crystal glassmakers. These tangible bubbles enter into a visual dialogue with two of his bubble paintings, blurring the line between material and illusion. The sculptures were previously shown in Dokoupil’s exhibition at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana of the Museo Correr in Venice.

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Text: Charlotte Desaga

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