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| Venture into the Microcosmos “In the Beginning” Exhibit Opening in the Gotischer Stadel The new series of works by the Munich painter, Eva Kunze, bears the title “In the Beginning” - and thus is the right opening for the beginning of the exhibition year in the Gotischer Stadel on the Mühleninsel in Landshut. As he opened the exhibit, Franz Schneider of the Neue Galerie opened the “new decade”, and announced exciting shows [in the coming years/in the first years of the new millennium] – and passed the word to Elke Krüssmann, who classified Kunze’s work right off the bat: “The classical genres of painting, photography, and sculpture will return to the center of attention in the next few years.” Right now there are exciting tendencies to watch – as can be seen in the exhibit “German Open” in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Young artists who “enrich the art of painting with totally new ideas, inspired by comic books and computer games.” Eva Kunze is one of these idea people: “The essential drive behind her art is the search for possibilities to further develop the art of painting.” Kunze pushes her language of form ever further, constantly pushing back the boundaries. At the beginning of her efforts – in the early 1980s - the Munich painter was still strongly influenced by the Junge Wilde, says Krüssmann. While at that time the human figure was at the center of things, there followed a cycle with the title “Figures of Decay.” Only vague contours of human shapes could be seen in the pictures. In the following cycle, “Depths”, the figures had finally ceased to exist. In the new cycle, “In the Beginning”, Eva Kunze studies “what happens when matter dissolves into its smallest constituent parts,” according to Krüssmann. Here, each picture is an expedition into an unknown landscape, a work without previously established forms. Actually what she is trying to do with her pictures, according to the artist who presented some of her works herself, is to discover microstructures, as it were, to get inside of the matter. And this raises the question: can we in our art only copy those forms that nature has given us, or are we able to discover new forms ourselves? Eva Kunze searches out the forms of nature and penetrates their microcosmos. |
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