TATJANA DOLL – THE PHARAOH IS COMING
2015-05-11Dolls paintings are the antagonism between excess and simplicity. In this dualism, our reality becomes multidimensional – it consists of a different realization of forms and things, which remain unchanged in their core nature.
Doll uses the collective symbols as well as subjects from the masterpieces in her paintings, she steals them from the history in order to experience them anew. The enamel surface is constantly being interrupted by the heavy paint flowing down, so that the subject is left to be a mere reflection or a piece of external information. This is a new, additional dimension that collides for Doll with the Terminator, in whose I’ll be back-concept, the process of the returning motive maintains its own counterfeit. Tatjana Doll names this the shock of the real.
It is not a coincidence that the painting ENAMEL_Glutamate is in fact a flavor enhancer. The thick, pastose brushstrokes of the enamel paint reveal its narcotic effect. The pure beingnothing-but-one-self of the painting can be observed. All we are looking at is the paint, supersaturating and evoking a visual desire for an image.
Opposite – DUMMY_Akku Akku (Amalgam), 2014
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2015
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann Berlin
Lindenstraße 35
10969 Berlin
Germany
