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3/11/2012

Personalities on paper

Ornis A. Gallery, Utrecht

Group exhibition: Hans Lemmen, Danielle Luinge, Mirjam Jacob, Rosa Loy, Marliz Frencken, Marlene Dumas, Paul Klemann, Tilo Baumgartel, Jan Knap, Julio Galan, George Condo

Drawing is a fast method, a very direct medium. It is close to one’s handwriting, and as one’s handwriting it can reveal a lot about the personality of the artist. Sketching on paper is often a preferred method to a first start of an artwork. For many it’s the fastest way to shape ideas, to pin them down and to experiment. Often more loaded with direct emotion and personality than the final artwork. There is less time for ratio to get involved and this makes it so revealing of the artists personality.

Danielle Luinge’s work is a choreography of atmospheres and moods not unknown. An imperfect and frail reality, affixed by rigid social codes, felt at surface level and in places more concealed; frequently oppressive and paralysing to the cheerful hearts of children. Danielle Luinge’s means of expression are striking and flamboyant.
(Text by Nadia Eckhout)

Rosa Loy is one of the artists in Germany dealing with the mystery of the woman, the new femininity and the new romanticism. Rosa Loy brings up the courage to integratefemininity and beauty in her figurative work and offers a multi-layeredinterpretation of her work. Particular interest she has in traditional knowledge of women, femininity and the associated new school of mysteries.
Paul Klemann

‘If you are into art, you have to make a choice at some stage, and I think that people don’t ask themselves often enough how images come into being. One is much more occupied with the things that happen outside of oneself. Factors like history, nationality, being man or woman determine the form of ones art, whereas I think that the basis for all art is that what happens in ones mind.’ These days one has the means of pervading deeper into things, as we see in the sciences. It asks for a form of concentration, to achieve the same in art. Paul Klemann has found this form of utter concentration, the highest concentration possible for a humas being, the dream. You cannot control the dream. ‘It is an Alice in Wonderland effect. You enter it and it gets at you, you are at it’s mercy’
(Paul Klemann, Dream Drawings by Hanneke van der Werf)

Tilo Baumgartel
In between the different levels of reality of his works, the artist dares us to explore a world both strange and familiar, foreboding and mysterious. Baumgärtel ́s mastery of subliminal tensions and subtle distortions has a number of sources. The superficial traces of narrative in the artist ́s works seem to be without direction. Rather, they lead the viewer onto the precarious terrain of associative and analytically dismembered narrative fragments. Dream and reality cross each other in a labyrinth of apparently hidden meanings, although here, as so often in Baumgärtel ́s works, there is but a thin line between comedy and drama.
(Text by Nils Ohlsen)

Hans Lemmen, Jan Knap, Mirjam Jacob and Marliz Frencken are artists of the gallery.
Julio Galan, Marlene Dumas and George Condo are internationally well known artists.

Opening 4 november

Ornis A. Gallery
Maliesingel 9 Utrecht
Opening hours: wed-sat from 12.00-17.00hrs. And on appointment.
Admission free

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