Marieta Chirulescu and Fred Sandback explore the "Materiality of Light" at Galerie Thomas Schulte

Muted and mutable surfaces take shape as thresholds in Phase at Galerie Thomas Schulte, a two-person exhibition of works on canvas by Marieta Chirulescu and spatial installations by Fred Sandback. The works share a processual and intuitive approach that engages shifting perceptual properties of light and space. What may at first appear pared down, or emptied out, slowly takes on further dimensions, including that of time—a sense of transience that unsettles what could appear as clear-cut geometries. Between opening as surface and the solidity of transparency, our attention is pulled towards what is actually there but may otherwise elude us: space as subtle material presence. In canvases that are largely monochrome, and frequently, but not exclusively, in shades of white, Chirulescu’s works induce shifting translucencies, depths, and textures. She often combines physical, painterly gestures and marks with photographic and digital ones, drawing on