Susanne S.D. Themlitz
28 Feb - 04 Apr 2009
© Susanne S.D. Themlitz
from the series parallel landscapes or in search of the mirror neurons (#30) 2008-2009 | 67 x 89,5 cm | graphite, watercolour and acrylic on paper
from the series parallel landscapes or in search of the mirror neurons (#30) 2008-2009 | 67 x 89,5 cm | graphite, watercolour and acrylic on paper
SUSANNE S.D. THEMLITZ
“At Eye Level”
Vera Cortês, Art Agency
Opening – 27th February, 10 p.m.
Open from the 28th February to the 4th April 2009
Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m.
And somewhere out there, a certain melancholy
New work by Susanne S.D. Themlitz from the series "Parallel Landscapes / In Search of the Mirror Neurons“
Susanne S.D. Themlitz (1968, Lisbon) has been working since 2007 in her studios in Lisbon and Cologne on her large series “Parallel Landscapes / In Search of the Mirror Neurons”. To date, the artist has completed 32 works on paper, most of them large format works. Far-reaching both from the theme and technical point of view, this series isn’t closed yet. Many of these works will be shown for the first time at Vera Cortês Art Agency, from February the 27th until April 4th 2009, in her solo exhibition “At Eye Level”.
Susanne Themlitz presents here parallel worlds, vast landscapes populated by strange, straying creatures. Are these scenes from the cabinet of horrors of a comics addict, or are they dreamy memories of an admirer of medieval painting?
In the vastness of this fantastic landscape, human mutants, winged creatures, hydrocephaly, and organs such as brains and hearts, snails, mosquitoes, cactuses, and mushrooms create mystifying relations. The images echo the fantasy world of Hieronymus Bosch or Max Ernst’s visionary spaces. These are surreal worlds, landscapes at the end of time, which are populated by figurative and abstract visual elements that are juxtaposed as if in a collage. Realistic graphical forms appear side by side with formless color fields.
Susanne Themlitz works on recurring themes that arise from her own sculptures and installations. And so, almost all the pictures in this new series show giant heads on shrinking bodies. The artist works with tilting views (as seen from a frog, bird or even human perspective), distortion, compressions and distensions. The point of view is continuously displaced. The coherence of the perspective is shattered.
Also the colors become autonomous, like color excrescences and clusters, or break free in a multitude of shades. Themlitz brings drawing into the realms of collage and painting with great ingenuity. The absent becomes just as present as what is visibly represented. Frequently, shadows take on a life of their own. And somewhere there is a certain melancholy.
Carl Friedrich Schröer
Düsseldorf, January 2009
“At Eye Level”
Vera Cortês, Art Agency
Opening – 27th February, 10 p.m.
Open from the 28th February to the 4th April 2009
Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m.
And somewhere out there, a certain melancholy
New work by Susanne S.D. Themlitz from the series "Parallel Landscapes / In Search of the Mirror Neurons“
Susanne S.D. Themlitz (1968, Lisbon) has been working since 2007 in her studios in Lisbon and Cologne on her large series “Parallel Landscapes / In Search of the Mirror Neurons”. To date, the artist has completed 32 works on paper, most of them large format works. Far-reaching both from the theme and technical point of view, this series isn’t closed yet. Many of these works will be shown for the first time at Vera Cortês Art Agency, from February the 27th until April 4th 2009, in her solo exhibition “At Eye Level”.
Susanne Themlitz presents here parallel worlds, vast landscapes populated by strange, straying creatures. Are these scenes from the cabinet of horrors of a comics addict, or are they dreamy memories of an admirer of medieval painting?
In the vastness of this fantastic landscape, human mutants, winged creatures, hydrocephaly, and organs such as brains and hearts, snails, mosquitoes, cactuses, and mushrooms create mystifying relations. The images echo the fantasy world of Hieronymus Bosch or Max Ernst’s visionary spaces. These are surreal worlds, landscapes at the end of time, which are populated by figurative and abstract visual elements that are juxtaposed as if in a collage. Realistic graphical forms appear side by side with formless color fields.
Susanne Themlitz works on recurring themes that arise from her own sculptures and installations. And so, almost all the pictures in this new series show giant heads on shrinking bodies. The artist works with tilting views (as seen from a frog, bird or even human perspective), distortion, compressions and distensions. The point of view is continuously displaced. The coherence of the perspective is shattered.
Also the colors become autonomous, like color excrescences and clusters, or break free in a multitude of shades. Themlitz brings drawing into the realms of collage and painting with great ingenuity. The absent becomes just as present as what is visibly represented. Frequently, shadows take on a life of their own. And somewhere there is a certain melancholy.
Carl Friedrich Schröer
Düsseldorf, January 2009