What is painting? This is the question that Markus Weggenmann has been searching for an answer to for over thirty years. Over the past three decades, the artist has responded to this question again and again with surprising and inspiring solutions that break new ground not least due to the innovative way in which they are painted. The artist’s decades-spanning oeuvre, which focuses on extensive cycles that lead to the present picture by picture, includes several phases of work. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Appenzell presents the kaleidoscopic diversity in Weggenmann’s work, in which color specifies the direction as his central material.