Adriana Molder
27 Sep - 14 Oct 2007
Adriana Molder
Der Traumdeuter
27th September - 14th October 2007
Studio 3
The faces in Adriana Molder's portrait drawings exercise an almost magical pull on the viewer's gaze. Molder executes her often larger-than-life ink drawings - most of them portraits or interiors - on gossamer-thin, transparent tracing paper. The depictions thus develop the translucent fragility and glow that characterise her work. Awakening an atmospheric echo of the famous "noirs" by the French Symbolist Odilon Redon (1840-1916), it seems they make the viewer into the confidant of a personal story, yet without entirely revealing their secrets. As in the work of Redon, whose artistic strategy started out from the unity of imagination and the dream, Molder's works also fire the viewer's imagination and offer projection surfaces and a depository for his emotions, dreams and fantasies. The exhibition "Der Traumdeuter" (The Dream Reader) consists of a series of works produced in 2007. They were obviously inspired by the chequered history of the former hospital Bethanien and the actual and imagined human stories and destinies associated with it.
Der Traumdeuter
27th September - 14th October 2007
Studio 3
The faces in Adriana Molder's portrait drawings exercise an almost magical pull on the viewer's gaze. Molder executes her often larger-than-life ink drawings - most of them portraits or interiors - on gossamer-thin, transparent tracing paper. The depictions thus develop the translucent fragility and glow that characterise her work. Awakening an atmospheric echo of the famous "noirs" by the French Symbolist Odilon Redon (1840-1916), it seems they make the viewer into the confidant of a personal story, yet without entirely revealing their secrets. As in the work of Redon, whose artistic strategy started out from the unity of imagination and the dream, Molder's works also fire the viewer's imagination and offer projection surfaces and a depository for his emotions, dreams and fantasies. The exhibition "Der Traumdeuter" (The Dream Reader) consists of a series of works produced in 2007. They were obviously inspired by the chequered history of the former hospital Bethanien and the actual and imagined human stories and destinies associated with it.