MARTINA KLEIN – PERMANENT CHANGES
2022-08-29Martina Klein makes monochrome canvases, which are most of the time not just hanging on the wall, but they stand against the wall or stand free in space, like an object. According to Klein the composition is not made in the painting itself but occurs in the space, within the relation of other paintings. The various monochromes make a choreography of colour planes that defines the space and gives it character. She builds up her painting with several layers of self-made recipes of paint. Adding more pigments to the oil, gives the painting a radiant effect. Her specific use of colours and the way of painting gives her work an extra quality. Recently she cuts the canvases loose of the stretchers, so that they hang partly free form their support.
Opposite – Untitled (Red), 2022
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2022
Slewe Gallery
Kerkstraat 105-A
1017 GD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
