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29/2/2008

Miriam Vlaming

Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin

In her first solo exhibition at our gallery, Miriam Vlaming presents a group of new paintings that interrelate as regards their content by the subjects of disguise and hiding. The large-sized work “Homeland” exposes the view from her childhood-room to the buildings of a commonplace middle-class village. As in most of her works, buildings stand for emotionally charged places of retreat. They serve as a protecting mantle from the world outside. At the same time, they attain a life of their own: windows can resemble eyes which either observe the beholder or consciously lock up in front of him.

The other works in the show – a clan-portrait that unites the generations of a family, a group of clowns who take each other pickaback and falter between humour and tragedy or a magician with a bunny’s head – are examples for a subject that draws through her work as a central theme: the suspense between man and animal respectively between civilisation and nature.

Vlaming’s works, which are always painted in tempera, attain their magic effect by the combination of presentation and camouflage, seductive beauty and incompleteness at the same time. Vlaming creates a particular and multi-layered world in which citations of myths and fairy-tales meet real elements. Her specific compositions which fuse an accomplished and almost abstract style with concrete motives without interruption enable an interspace of reality and dream. Here, not only the colour becomes independent by its application, but also the beholder’s gaze is send on a rewarding journey.

Opening: March 1st, 6 pm

Galerie Martin Mertens
Brunnenstrasse 162 - Berlin
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 to 18:00 & by prior arrangement
Free admission

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