cristallo-013 Sculpture

Visual artist Born 1945 in Zurich, Switzerland / Domiciled in France since 1991 1978-1981 F+F (school for Art and Media Design), Zürich/Switzerland 1981-1988 HfbK (high school for visual arts), Hamburg/Germany (with diploma) Art studies at age of 33 years - see above. During these years she participated in various exhibitions, performances and events in the playful and provocative style well known in Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin wall. Since 1992 she lives and works in Barjols located in Provence France. For the last 15 years color has been the centre of her works. Different experiments were produced, always characterized by a critical view on society. Experiments with digital photography, film, installations and painting; analysis between figuration and abstraction. Beside graphical and digital areas the most different materials play a great role in Katharina's approach. This does not exclude a certain playful sense of mockery and humor which she inherited from her Swiss tradition and which peaked out in the Dada movement. Painting without the traditional tools like paint brush and canvas! A constant coming and going between the 2nd and 3rd dimension. The latest works - a game between warm and cold colors, light and darkness, transparency and space, horizontal and vertical - range between painting and sculpture. née à Zürich en Suisse domicilie en France depuis 1991...Il faut alors abolir le hasard, interdire l'autobiographie et la confession, rejeter l'action pour trouver la précision, resserrer les contours pour créer des formes lisibles, donner la discipline et au contrôle de soi plus d'importance qu l'aventure du geste.De la disparition des mouvements de la main remplaces par une technique, plus mécanique, il résulte l'apparence profondément naturelle d'une image qui se crée seule, de manière impersonnelle et par la même universelle.En même temps quelle rend l'œuvre unitaire et immédiate cette technique interdit de se concentrer sur les détails.La juxtaposition de couleurs chaudes et froides telles que des bleus, des rouges et des jaunes francs donne naissance, grâce la propriété des couleurs d'avancer et de reculer, un sentiment d'espace qui naît des seules qualités optiques.