SIMONE LANZENSTIEL – TEMPORARIY THERE
2015-01-12For her new exhibition Simone Lanzenstiel combines works on canvas with wall paintings expanding the latter by various elements into the gallery space. This way the artist creates a ‘work-space’ where the painting leaves its two-dimensionality. Among acrylic and aerosol paint she appropiates different materials such as wood laths, non-woven fabric, tape and paper columns as alternative media which then also operate as lines and forms within the room. The large-scale canvases are setting the course and direct the lines into a multi-layered three-dimensional space.
The simple items borrowed from everyday life are relics of urban areas pictorially transformed to seemingly at random arranged, extensive ensembles. Starting from that cursoriness, Lanzenstiel investigates the ‘city patina’, construction areas, torn off posters and graffiti on walls. She then translates these impressions into her painting. The transition between the individual media is light and fluent.
Everything in her work originates in lines – they are straight, circular, fading and contour giving. Being the opponent, the color white works as foundation, coverage or sometimes line itself. In the latest works it appears more active and vivid letting subtle color shades of former actions shine through. The various white tones especially the greyish and yellowish ones remind one of dirt tracks on the streets.
Opposite – Untitled (1495), 2014
Exhibition runs through to February 7th, 2015
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstr. 56, Hof 1
80333 Munich
Germany
