Daniela Krtsch
10 Mar - 28 Apr 2007
DANIELA KRTSCH
"Dezembro (December)"
Vera Cortês, Art Agency
opening 9th March at 22h
From 10th March to 28th April de
Monday to Friday from 10h to 19h
Saturday from 15h to 20h
Daniela Krtsch (Göttingen, 1972) presents DECEMBER. This new series of paintings prolongs the work she has been developing, in which is evident the artist’s personal meditation on subjects that although seemingly inscribed in a recognizable universe, comprise a tense examination of identity.
DECEMBER started from an idea of recording a collection of images capable of crystallizing several different ways of experiencing one and the same space during a short, specific period of time. In this work there is an underlying conception of unifying space, which is simultaneously undergoing a metamorphosis in consequence of its usage and as the stage of the most diverse situations.
We are thus in face of an environment that feels familiar, but is the stage for distant characters – introducing an imbalance of values and a latent disarticulation.
If, on the one hand, these paintings correspond to an individual and intimate expression, almost like a diary, they also work as the catalyst for countless possibilities that lead to the most diverse potential narratives, or to the construction of multiple interpretations – challenging the viewer to a reflection that is constantly being projected outside the borders of the paintings themselves.
This work is not just a series of records of an experienced event. It is also the recording of the recollection of other experiences or even of imaginary ones. Reality is thus presented side by side with fiction, and the two merge becoming indistinct.
Daniela Krtsch completed the advanced course of Visual Arts at Ar.Co – Escola de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon, in 2003, and was the beneficiary of a grant by the Caixa Geral de Depósitos in the year 2002. She exhibits regularly in Lisbon and Porto. In 2002 and 2003, Daniela participated in the annual exhibition of Young Artists (Jovens Criadores), and was chosen to integrate the Portuguese representation at the International Biennial of Young Artists in Athens. In 2006, Daniela received the international Qwartz Award, in Paris, for her artwork and photography in the Microaudiowaves video Fully Connected.
[Margarida Brito Alves]
"Dezembro (December)"
Vera Cortês, Art Agency
opening 9th March at 22h
From 10th March to 28th April de
Monday to Friday from 10h to 19h
Saturday from 15h to 20h
Daniela Krtsch (Göttingen, 1972) presents DECEMBER. This new series of paintings prolongs the work she has been developing, in which is evident the artist’s personal meditation on subjects that although seemingly inscribed in a recognizable universe, comprise a tense examination of identity.
DECEMBER started from an idea of recording a collection of images capable of crystallizing several different ways of experiencing one and the same space during a short, specific period of time. In this work there is an underlying conception of unifying space, which is simultaneously undergoing a metamorphosis in consequence of its usage and as the stage of the most diverse situations.
We are thus in face of an environment that feels familiar, but is the stage for distant characters – introducing an imbalance of values and a latent disarticulation.
If, on the one hand, these paintings correspond to an individual and intimate expression, almost like a diary, they also work as the catalyst for countless possibilities that lead to the most diverse potential narratives, or to the construction of multiple interpretations – challenging the viewer to a reflection that is constantly being projected outside the borders of the paintings themselves.
This work is not just a series of records of an experienced event. It is also the recording of the recollection of other experiences or even of imaginary ones. Reality is thus presented side by side with fiction, and the two merge becoming indistinct.
Daniela Krtsch completed the advanced course of Visual Arts at Ar.Co – Escola de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon, in 2003, and was the beneficiary of a grant by the Caixa Geral de Depósitos in the year 2002. She exhibits regularly in Lisbon and Porto. In 2002 and 2003, Daniela participated in the annual exhibition of Young Artists (Jovens Criadores), and was chosen to integrate the Portuguese representation at the International Biennial of Young Artists in Athens. In 2006, Daniela received the international Qwartz Award, in Paris, for her artwork and photography in the Microaudiowaves video Fully Connected.
[Margarida Brito Alves]