The exhibited painting by Tilo Schulz is the latest in his series of tondos started in 2015. The artist applies many layers of different colours of paint onto the medium-density fibreboard base so that they partially or completely overlap, and subsequently scrapes back the surface in certain parts. The composition of the paintings thus created is shaped by colours showing through one another as well as texture effects arising from differences in the thickness of the coating. In the case of Skin, the white of the surface is created from seven different layers of white coating, resulting in a skin-like organic surface. Beyond the aesthetic effect generated by the technique, part of the artist's concept is the social purport of the works: just like the overlapping layers of coating applied through a lenghty process of painting and drying can never perfectly block one another out, the phenomena repressed in society or intended to be erased from the past keep coming to the surface as till existing previous layers.
