This year I started to change my concept of colour
and forms. I wanted to go back to the basics and
therefore started to free myself from almost all
strong colours and replaced them with natural
colour tones like: umbra; ocker; black and white.
The
background material has also changed to big pieces
of strong thick and naturally produced paper which
harmonises with the colours of the paintings themselves.
The motives have remained mainly figurative, which
continues to be the easiest way for me to express
my feelings. My paintings are composed in a very
compact way, a way in which you could reduce them
to the shape of an egg - my symbol of all beginning.
In
the main series called, 'Women' I have composed
paintings which integrate moods, feelings and
thoughts about life. The subject woman was used
as a metaphor. They can give life; they can develop
something within them; they embody creation. My
previous obsession with using hands as a symbol
has now been replaced by a more abstract organic/embryotic
symbol which, on the one hand seems to be completely
absorbed within the painting - but on the other
hand has the urgency, the desire to break out
of it. This should not only be seen as something
organic, something realistic. It could also be
the thoughts, the feelings one has and which need
to be freed and released but somehow are imprisoned
within.
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There is one more symbol remaining in my work
- the spiral. It is something which represents
motion, movement and something never-ending- permanent
which could go on forever and ever.
Looking
at the series of 'Women' - which isn't completed
yet - one can see it developing into more and
more reduced forms, which eventually will result
in ...
The
series 'women' has never been shown in public
before and had its debut at ARTEXPO 99 in New
York.
1999
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