Corinne Wasmuht
I saw this artist in Art Basel Hongkong. This is it. It is painted in wood! Kathe-Kollwitz Preis in the summer 2014 winner, woman One picture needs up to 8 months to finish it. Largest format is 1.97 x 7.15m with a weight of 180kg in 2014. A Dizzy, Dreamy Reality German painter Corinne Wasmuht ’s dizzying oil paintings on wood capture the overwhelming sensation of life in our hypermodern world. Wasmuht melds abstract gestures and recognizable representational forms in a glitchy나쁜 manner that presents multiple images overlapping, each competing for the viewer’s attention, yet none of them ever really completely there. To create these complex paintings, which often take the form of large panoramas that overwhelm the viewer with visual information, she begins by using a mix of found Internet imagery and her own photographs to cull loose references to everyday urban life, art, science and nature . But unlike other artists who work with found imagery, it...