Seo
11 - 28 Aug 2005
This year Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting SEO as the first prize-winner of the newly created Falkenrot-Prize.
In future, this prize for painting - initiated by the Dutch collectors Arie and Astrid de Knecht - is to be awarded to artists from home and abroad whose work promises to shape future developments in contemporary art.
The works by this year’s prize-winner combine elements of her original Asian culture and present chosen home in Europe. To create her collages, she tears up pieces of paper and sticks these over each other in layers, then applying paint before adding more layers and finally painting over them once again.
The surface layers and those still partially visible beneath them give rise to an unusual painterly structure, to which the hand-made paper sent to the artist from her home country in Korea also contributes.
It is not a matter, first and foremost, of reproducing the motifs realistically, but of discovering the ‘essence’ within the motif; an essence then rendered in painting.
Studio 1, 12th - 28th August 2005, Wednesday - Sunday, 2- 7 pm, Opening: Thursday, 11th August 2005, 7 pm
www.bethanien.de
In future, this prize for painting - initiated by the Dutch collectors Arie and Astrid de Knecht - is to be awarded to artists from home and abroad whose work promises to shape future developments in contemporary art.
The works by this year’s prize-winner combine elements of her original Asian culture and present chosen home in Europe. To create her collages, she tears up pieces of paper and sticks these over each other in layers, then applying paint before adding more layers and finally painting over them once again.
The surface layers and those still partially visible beneath them give rise to an unusual painterly structure, to which the hand-made paper sent to the artist from her home country in Korea also contributes.
It is not a matter, first and foremost, of reproducing the motifs realistically, but of discovering the ‘essence’ within the motif; an essence then rendered in painting.
Studio 1, 12th - 28th August 2005, Wednesday - Sunday, 2- 7 pm, Opening: Thursday, 11th August 2005, 7 pm
www.bethanien.de