Exhibition: Signs in motion

Signs in Motion| Marie-Claire Ackermann

Marie-Claire Ackermann is an extraordinary artist who nevertheless embodies the very type of art. Indeed, it's not easy to describe what she does with her art. Perhaps the easiest way is to use a comparison. Onomatopoeic" language is when a word captures the essence of what it designates, making its essence audible, so to speak. Marie-Claire Ackermann's work has a similar effect in the pictorial realm. In her drawings, she explores the appearances of nature, principally the plant world and the landscapes and arrangements it creates. In her oil paintings, the artist condenses these phenomenological impressions into signs that make the "language" of these beings visible, so to speak. In this respect, we might speak, with reference to the above comparison, of "pictorial imagery in terms of form and color".

In his groundbreaking theoretical work (in fact, a kind of manifesto) entitled "On the Spiritual in Art" (1912), Wassily Kandinsky writes that art's primary mission is to make the spiritual (the essential) visible. This is particularly true in the context of the development of abstraction in painting. A former student of Gottfried Tritten, his search for a balance between figuration and abstraction may also have influenced her artistic career. Marie-Claire Ackermann has found in this field of tension a style so authentic, so independent and so undeniably modern that it is rare in contemporary art. Precision of expression is combined in her painting with an almost physically palpable spontaneity in the creation of each work.

In short, this work is difficult to grasp by description - it has to be experienced in direct confrontation!


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