ZUSPIEL / Jessica Buhlmann, Franziska Goes
09 Sep - 02 Oct 2011
In a further edition of its ZUSPIEL series, Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting works by Jessica Buhlmann and Franziska Goes.
JESSICA BUHLMANN does not strive in her works to reproduce, but to reflect her environment. She uses various textures and overlapping areas of colour that may cover each other, as well as constructive elements in order to generate tensions. She takes her inspiration from objects perceived everyday, which she reinterprets and recombines. Coincidences and accidents are a desired part of this process, as they enliven the images and cause them to grow beyond themselves. Conscious settings are then applied repeatedly to organise such uncontrolled aspects. Buhlmann's painting operates in the broad field between perception and projection, investigating aesthetic harmonies and dissonances. In parts of the paintings, disturbing factors such as tears or stains lead to a sense of disquiet; a fragile, uncertain expression that gives the impression that they could tip over the edge at any moment. Buhlmann's pictures rarely comprise brightly-coloured, pure shades - the world appears delicate, fragile, playful and constructed within them. http://www.jessicabuhlmann.de
FRANZISKA GOES' work is concerned with expressive possibilities of painting within different concepts of the image. She employs her artistic means in such a way that they define and describe the images theme. Thus, for example, the free, "expressive" gesture of a brushstroke and an "indirect" form of painting using an airbrush are contrasted within various series of works. The airbrush paintings are set out as "all-overs" with repeated balls and lines spreading across the entire picture area. This leads to an apparently intact configuration within which breaks, hard edges, overlaps, three-dimensional depth/ shifting of planes take place. Within the series, Goes' interest lies in her variation of the pictorial elements and the principle of covering, so that the "remainder" becomes visible and turns to the decisive form. Besides painting as an action, the starting points and motivation behind Franziska Goes' paintings are structural arrangements and movements amidst the big city, psychology and nature. In the context of ZUSPIEL, Franziska Goes is showing a selection of "Ball Pictures" painted between 2008 and 2011. http://www.franziskagoes.com
JESSICA BUHLMANN does not strive in her works to reproduce, but to reflect her environment. She uses various textures and overlapping areas of colour that may cover each other, as well as constructive elements in order to generate tensions. She takes her inspiration from objects perceived everyday, which she reinterprets and recombines. Coincidences and accidents are a desired part of this process, as they enliven the images and cause them to grow beyond themselves. Conscious settings are then applied repeatedly to organise such uncontrolled aspects. Buhlmann's painting operates in the broad field between perception and projection, investigating aesthetic harmonies and dissonances. In parts of the paintings, disturbing factors such as tears or stains lead to a sense of disquiet; a fragile, uncertain expression that gives the impression that they could tip over the edge at any moment. Buhlmann's pictures rarely comprise brightly-coloured, pure shades - the world appears delicate, fragile, playful and constructed within them. http://www.jessicabuhlmann.de
FRANZISKA GOES' work is concerned with expressive possibilities of painting within different concepts of the image. She employs her artistic means in such a way that they define and describe the images theme. Thus, for example, the free, "expressive" gesture of a brushstroke and an "indirect" form of painting using an airbrush are contrasted within various series of works. The airbrush paintings are set out as "all-overs" with repeated balls and lines spreading across the entire picture area. This leads to an apparently intact configuration within which breaks, hard edges, overlaps, three-dimensional depth/ shifting of planes take place. Within the series, Goes' interest lies in her variation of the pictorial elements and the principle of covering, so that the "remainder" becomes visible and turns to the decisive form. Besides painting as an action, the starting points and motivation behind Franziska Goes' paintings are structural arrangements and movements amidst the big city, psychology and nature. In the context of ZUSPIEL, Franziska Goes is showing a selection of "Ball Pictures" painted between 2008 and 2011. http://www.franziskagoes.com