Corinne Wasmuht's large scale paintings of recent years open up new dimensions of perception. The artist, born 1964 in Dortmund and raised in Argentina, generates multi-dimensional image-spaces which at first glance offer an orientation but elude a precise determination due to their hybrid character. Her paintings on wood painted in the method of the Old Masters meld multiple-perspective snapshots of our urban architectural surroundings and landscape. Although fragments of our immediate mundane reality remain discernible, fascinating and seemingly alien spaces and environments rise before our eyes while the individual scenes appear to float alongside each other, syntactically unrelated. Architectures, bodies and spaces are juxtaposed in these pictures as self-sufficient independent units only loosely connected at the interfaces by subtle gradations in colour temperature which sometimes drift into poisonously opalescent chasms. Porous and brittle, the image spaces seem to be in a state of degeneration or could it be that they are only a different, alien reality coming into being? Corinne Wasmuht's paintings are at once abstract and figurative and display planes as well as depths of space. Like a house of mirrors with its labyrinthine chambers, infinite projections and peculiar distortions of vanishing points and lines, these paintings provide a panorama of a plethora of visual information.
The exhibition Supracity reveals a concentrated survey of her development since the last fifteen years through to recent works which were created specifically for the exhibition. Corinne Wasmuht lives and works in Berlin and has been teaching as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe since 2006. The catalogue, conceived in collaboration with Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, was published by Verlag Walter König (14,80 Euro). The exhibition will be supplemented by valuable loans from public and private collections.


Picture credits:

50 U Heinrich-Heine-Str., 2009
Oil on canvas, 251 x 543 cm
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund
Photo: Christine Dierenbach

Gewalt, 2001
Oil on canvas, 227 x 322 cm
Sammlung M. und A. Schmeer
Photo: Christine Dierenbach
and
Tunnel, 2000
Oil on canvas, 218 x 383 cm
Collection Rheingold
Photo: Christine Dierenbach  

Ohne Titel (Wandbild Nürnberg), 2010
Digital print on fleece
Photo: Christine Dierenbach

Siempre es hoy, 2007
Oil on canvas, 261 x 434 cm
The Saatchi Gallery, London
Photo: Stefanie Seufert, Berlin