the quality of something misremembered
Künstler/in
Titania Seidl
(geb. 1988 in Wien)
Date2022
ClassificationsMalerei
MediumÖl auf Holzplatte
Dimensions24 × 18 × 2,4 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28496
DescriptionTitania Seidl makes paintings that shift between figuration and abstraction. Her paintings each have both representational and non-representational elements within them, not so much as a struggle between these elements but rather as a harmony within the frame. That said, there is sometimes a discomfort at playin the composition and arrangement of form in her paintings. From dripping paint in different colours, to recognizable objects and living forms, such as houseplants, to outlines of human faces, to household items, discarded gloves … all elements collapse together, albeit without tension, into an ongoing state of becoming. The paintings with their white under-surface of gessoed canvas are not even, in a way, complete, suggesting that this process of becoming is indeed on-going. But what is not present, it appears, are some of the emotive gestures found in other paintings. There is no mournfulness; there is no sense of astonishment or even giddiness. The form is presented as it is, but this is exactly the conundrum: form does not appear like this. Careful observation is clearly one element of her praxis as a painter, but another appears to be a certain kind of impartiality. The compositions and images are entirely subjective in their invention and presentation, but neither ruefulness nor abandon accompany this subjectivity. The paintings come into being as if they had been in this process well before they were begun. Text: Seamus Kealy, A Painter’s Doubt Catalogue Salzburger Kunstverein 2017
Quelle: http://www.titania-seidl.net/
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