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Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 28 W x 36.2 H x 1.6 D in
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This painting called "The Anarchists" is part of a watercolour series called "Dream Houses", which was exhibited in Fitzrovia Gallery in London in March 2016. "Dream Houses" depict fragmented urban landscapes and developed as a reaction to the situation in London and other major cities today, where the idea of a home is but a fragmented fantasy. A former citizen of Berlin, New York and Rio de Janeiro, Bettina treats her paintings as platforms for endless variations of visions of what ‘a home‘ can be and essentially what life could be. She depicts her urban landscapes in the surrealist form she knows them from personal experience, abstracted and incomplete, illustrative of how limited we are in conducting our lives. Watercolour paint seems to be the perfect medium. Its transparency allows for all layers to be present and for a dream-like associative world to emerge. This world became a stage that gave the artist space to create drama with the few characters that she added to the scenes. One wonders whether they are in a relationship to each other, know each other, see each other at all. And everybody will see something slightly different, their dream, their memory, their association.
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:28 W x 36.2 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Bettina John is a performance and installation artist with a diverse practice drawing on various media including drawing and painting, video and photography, performance art, installation and textile work. After having studied fashion design at german art school Burg Giebiechenstein, an art school with similar roots to the Bauhaus, she worked for a couple of years as a fashion designer in Berlin and London before deciding to open her career to a more interdisciplinary approach, very much in the Bauhaus tradition. She went on to study new media art at Goldsmiths University in 2008 and formed an art collective the same year. Goldsmiths reinforced her interdisciplinary way of working and instilled a critical stance to new media. As part of the collective Bettina John started exhibiting and performing. Whilst pursuing the life as a fine artist with travel bursaries taking her to New York in 2012 and Rio De Janeiro in 2013, she continued building a design portfolio, focusing on design for opera, contemporary dance and musicals. However her work as a designer and her work as an artist is inextricably linked and informs one another leading to interesting projects, often collaborations. Rather than focusing on the choice of the medium Bettina John's approach leads her from an idea to a medium, resulting in installations that can serve as a stage for her live performances. Bettina John is interested in the process, discovering and uncovering herself and social conditions. Her work resembles that of an anthropologist investigating the way we live now, particularly in regards to social media, technology and globalisation. These interests prompted her in 2012 to develop Alter Egos that help her uncovering a hedonist and narcissist, selfie world where it is as simple to reinvent yourself as pressing a few buttons and ticking a couple of boxes. The consequences can be bigger and effect real life rather than just our virtual avatar. With her Alter Egos she goes so far as to explore those consequences.
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