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CHROMA |
Painting in the Nineties
1st April - 30th May 1999
Opening: Wednesday 31st March 1999 at 8.00 p.m. |
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At the end of the century art offers a great variety of possibilities for artistic
expression and is tolerant towards all forms and techniques of artistic creativity. Symptomatic for this openness
is the renewed and varied use in the nineties of a traditional medium - painting.
The exhibition shows works by Sabine Funke, Katharina Grosse, Susanne Paesler, Vero Pfeiffer, Anke Pfisterer, Frances
Scholz and Corinne Wasmuht.
Both committed to and at the same time detached from artistic traditions, these women-painters use, transform,
question the constituent elements of painting - colour and form, surface and space - and set them free from earlier
limitations. The dogmatic idea of what a painting is has been replaced by an open range of concepts and technical
processes. The paintings are, in the widest sense of the term, non-objective or abstract but many of the works
shown in the exhibition also keep the balance by tending equally towards the borders of representationalism. Colour
is seen as a means of structuring, as a material or object per se; it spreads beyond the boundaries of the picture
itself, opens itself up to the space around it, intermingles and overlaps and enters into strange symbioses.
A publication will be available at the exhibition. |
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