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Artist Exhibitions:
Recent exhibitions: "The
Spirit in Art", Ferrara
(2007); Florence Biennale of
Contemporary Art (2007);
Galeria Centro Storico
Florence (2008); Galeria de
Marchi, Bologna (2008);
Visionary Artists for Tibet,
Zurich (2008); Galerie
Billing, Baar, Switzerland
(Dec/Jan 2008/9); "Traces of
Memory", Ferrara (2008);
Affordable Arts Fair New York
(2009); Kunst...
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Karl Maenz
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My purpose is to create exciting, contemporary works of art that are beautiful to live with.
Most of my paintings originate high in the mountains in the Swiss regional park of the Binn Valley. These works are mostly non-figurative, but throughout the seasons the surrounding glaciers, rocks, wildwaters serve as a backdrop.
In the beginning there is almost always a thought, a feeling or an image. Instead of copying it on canvas, when lucky, I can switch into a dreamlike state, removed from reality, and my approach becomes free and gestural.
Sometimes the result is a work of beauty, and I may feel reminded of my initial thoughts. There isn't a literal image of these thoughts, but our imagination is stimulated beyond the obvious.
My aesthetic approach - mostly non-figurative abstract - runs counter the post-modernist trend, since Pop, Minimalism and Concept Art swept Abstract Expressionism to the sidelines fifty years ago. There seems to be a loss of faith in the aesthetic basis of art, but I remain attached to illusion and the lyrical character in modernist art.
Nevertheless, I can see the creative space in-between the two. So, with luck, you may experience the tension between the irreconcilable poles of literalness and illusion in some of my works.
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