Mark Wilson (* 1943) originally began his artistic career as a painter before discovering the possibilities of generative software in the early 1980s. In doing so, he developed a clearly recognizable style right from the start and thus created a coherent work that is not interested in quick effects, but reveals itself to be multi-layered on closer inspection.

“Writing software can be very intuitive. Even with a very formally defined programming goal, there are usually many different ways to achieve that goal. Choosing a good way to reach the goal is a matter of intuition, judgment, intelligence and probably a thousand other things. In my case I don't have a formally defined goal - I just want to hopefully take interesting pictures. So I juggle these different algorithms – these recipes – in my software, adding a little more here, subtracting a little there. I could almost describe my working process as “Algorithmic Expressionism”. That's perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but I don't have a formal goal here either. I follow the process where it takes me….

In my work I try to use the digital nature of the computer directly. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine creating these works with any other medium.”

The exhibition acquaints the visitor with very different phases of his work, from the first “simple” line compositions to the increasingly complex images of the 2000s.

After his first solo exhibition in Europe at the DAM Cologne Gallery in 2012, this is the first comprehensive exhibition in Berlin.