Gone Astray XVII Painting

Tanja Vetter’s works show painting as alienation of a reality, where representational and abstract elements are imbued mutually with each other. Landscapes are her motif. Tanja Vetter’s countrysides of wood and mountainscapes, seascapes and staffage landscapes meet our eyes discomfortingly, melancholically and alienating. For, in spite of the closeness to the portrayed, unreal looking traits blend into the open spaces of the sceneries, make their way from tangible motif through its decomposition to the point of abstracted colour patches, warm and cold tinting colour gradients and surface structures. It is not the artist’s aim to depict nature, rather her landscape impressions shape themselves from painting; nature takes place in the process of painting. Her artistic repertoire ranges from expressive brushstrokes to dripped and blending oil paint; over and over the depth of space is sought after and penetrated by the autonomy of colour. In addition human figures in wide, sublime scenery; particularly the latest works include the figure, man into the colouristic landscape areas. These can be of quite symbolic nature and ask questions for the seemingly long gone desire and broken longing for the unity of man and nature. They let us discover and experience them again. Tanja Vetter gratuated in 2002 from the Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim, Germany. Her work has taken many turns in recent years: from abstract informal art to realistic painting – often broken by ironic elements and exploring its means and possibilities by itself.