Painted light — paintings filled with radiant colors
A comprehensive overview of the impressive oeuvre of Helene B. Grossmann
Emotional and contemplative works that are at the same time artistic reflections on painting as such
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Helene B. Grossmann
Share the Light
Helene B. Grossmann draws on a great tradition of light painting.
She creates works of light and color whose impact unfolds far from any representationalism. This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and shows how the artist arrives at her powerful compositions.
She creates works of light and color whose impact unfolds far from any representationalism. This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and shows how the artist arrives at her powerful compositions.
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Nature in ever-changing light is Helene B. Grossmann’s source of inspiration. Through abstraction and the application of countless layers of paint she arrives at the distinct glow inherent to her works. In both small and large formats she has captured the fluid phenomenon of light on canvas in a wide variety of color diffractions. An unobstructed space opens up for the viewer, giving rise to intimations of landscapes, tableaus and spatiality. The basis for each and every painting is the artist’s sketchbook. In it she lays out a first general outline of the composition by means of color planes and lines. In doing so, she often artistically reflects on masterpieces of painting and takes up the particular lighting used in them.
press commentaries
Erhaben blickt der Betrachter auf die Lichterscheinung in der weißen Wolke, die genauso gut als weiße Taube gesehen werden kann, als Botschafterin eines neuen Tages voller Licht und Frieden. Verheißung kann wahrgenommen werden, göttliche Gegenwart. Ein Gegenüber, das sich jeden Morgen aufmacht, in die Niederungen seiner Schöpfung hinunterzusteigen und sie mit seiner Präsenz zu erfüllen.
bildimpuls.de
In Grossmanns Bildern verschmelzen Licht und Farbe zu einer harmonischen Einheit, ganz und gar vom Gegenständlichen losgelöst.
Basler Zeitung
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Essays by Raimund Thomas and Christoph Vitali
English-German edition with a summary in French
180 pages, 187 illustrations
30 x 30 cm, hardcover with dust jacket
English-German edition with a summary in French
180 pages, 187 illustrations
30 x 30 cm, hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2849-9
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