The arrogance Painting

"Only a handful of artists have the ability to blow life into their work. Christine Boré is one of these few. Powerful yet subtle, like a hand reaching out gently into the depths of life itself, Christine's work needs to be looked after like plants, provide ample light, breathing room and they will flourish." Born in a family of musicians, Christine was raised in a world of sound. Her father was a pianist, composer and conductor, her mother an opera singer and theatre actress. Throughout her early childhood she was taken along for her mom’s Italian lessons at Prof. Bremmer’s. Son of the famous ‘Art Pope’, his house hosted a large collection of paintings. Twice a week, during lessons, she sat there in a big white chair, drawing, immersed by Impressionists’ paintings. At age 17 she leaves for the Fine Arts Academy in Groningen and starts her own path in the figurative arts during the free and formless education of the late Sixties. She seeks a deeper essence of space and place, for three-dimensionality, and turns to sculpture. Until today the search into light and form remains. Christine describes her work as a blend of symbolism and metaphysical art, part of the "magical realism" current, an initially literary art current which unfolded during the 1920s. She closely links this with Flemish writer Hubert Lampo, who expresses a mindful universe of existence as an entirety of events without coincidence. Space is a biophysical engagement and both technically and conceptually a painting has to grow to frame its living presence. Going beyond mere geometry lets her capture space more meaningfully, as events extended in time. Her work portrays an experience of seeking harmony between reality and imagination, while impressionist and expressionist methods meet. Grounded in reality, as a work develops the immanent hidden arises and is expressed in how and what is painted, until the act of painting saturates, making each work an explorative journey. If it did not, it would not carry the same charge and could not give a place to space.