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Details of object number: 244630
Title:The Captured Sky
Object name:tableau
Collection:Kunstankauf, Abteilung Deutsche Kultur
Created by:Gallmetzer, Christine (artist) (Bolzano/Bozen, 1964-08-06)
Production date:2014
Description:aus der Serie „The Captured Sky“, an der die Künstlerin seit 2012 arbeitet. Blick durch Netzstruktur auf einen leicht bewölkten Schönwetterhimmel. Auf der Rückseite oben mit dunkelrotem Filzstift signiert und datiert: „Gallemtzer, 2014”.
Hist. crit. notes:[...] The series, created between 2012 and 2016 (note of the artist: will still be continued), consists of works on canvas, mostly horizontal in format, along with objects and a short video. Some of the paintings are of people, while others depict views of a fair-weather sky dotted with clouds onto which a net-like structure is superimposed. Other canvases present delicate geometric bodies and networks against a diffuse background. The artist’s experimental approach to painterly media is striking here compared to her previous work. Although these “celestial images” exude a peculiar sense of calm, much like “Der Turmspringer” (The Diver, 2009), Gallmetzer seems to now stray slightly from the tradition of classical panel painting that was still palpable in “Splendid Isolation” (2009). The handling of paint is more spontaneous: partially sprayed on, it is scraped off again elsewhere, as though significant levels of reality could be found underneath. In addition, it is evident that the artist continues to spin certain themes from previous series, such as the “veiling” and “revealing” that we encounter in “Vanishing”. The effect achieved through the use of clothing and headgear in that series confronts us once again in the caps, helmets and goggles of the parachutists. In both series, the painterly process revolves around nothing less than a quest for hidden truths. [...]
(Christian Philipp Schön, in: Christine Gallmetzer, The Captured Sky, Malerei, Bolzano, 2016)
(Christian Philipp Schön, in: Christine Gallmetzer, The Captured Sky, Malerei, Bolzano, 2016)
Technique:gemalt
Dimensions:
- height: 80 cm
width: 100 cm
Physical description:Öl auf Leinwand
Keyword:Landscape