LEA ASJA PAGENKEMPER – THE LOVER AND THE MAGICAN
2011-10-24The exhibition “The Lover and the Magician” presents the latest works by Baselitz master student L. A. Pagenkemper. Her paintings focus on symbolically charged landscapes which, beyond any realistic illusionism, are committed to moments that lyrically render the atmosphere.
The artist places iconic elements from daily life in utopian landscapes. This is done to symbolically present human situations of love and Eros, magic and disillusion, excess and decay. In addition to these references to the painting of a Munch or Gauguin, Pagenkemper’s simplified and original manner of representation discloses a quest for expression and feeling that resists the deceptive illusionism of (media) reality, to ultimately put forth a different option, that of a changed subjectivity.
Opposite – The Magican, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2011
Galerie Jette Rudolph
Strausberger Platz 4
D- 10243 Berlin
Germany
