Solo Exhibition by Gudrun Schmidt. Gudrun's work explores the mythic within the known. In an abstract dynamic style, her work explores texture in everyday life, pattern and structure in unexpected corners which add humanity to our lives in concrete. In her paintings, signs and numbers assume a mythic, a poetic quality. Thematic influences could come from sources as diverse as plants or even rusty shipwrecks.
Exploring The Mythic Within The Known
Solo Exhibition by Gudrun Schmidt
The artist’s work reflects on hidden corners in everyday life, distilling images and shapes into multiple layers of texture and remodeling them into large abstract paintings. “I am often looking at spaces - real, imaginary or dream spaces, sometimes industrial or rusty ones which on closer inspection are more fragile than they seem. It is about transferring them into a poetic language of reflection, and a catching of moments in everyday life.â€
Gudrun’s work explores the mythic within the known. In an abstract dynamic style, her work explores texture in everyday life, pattern and structure in unexpected corners which add humanity to our lives in concrete. In her paintings, signs and numbers assume a mythic, a poetic quality. Thematic influences could come from sources as diverse as plants or even rusty shipwrecks.
Exploring texture, signs and numbers, her “Surabaya Series†reminds one of remnants of a dreamlike past world. In her “Remembrance to Ayutthaya Seriesâ€, the language and signs scribbled into plants in the antique temple grounds remind us of a poetic quality in unexpected places. Her “Pop Op Flowers Series†is a more upbeat series with pronounced dynamic with bold colours and brush strokes where subtle poetry lines add fragility. These could - as in her “Urban Poetry†paintings – be derived from classical, often, however, these are also be taken from modern poems.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gudrun Schmidt is a self-taught artist whose work has developed over the last 8 years. She has been expanding her know-how via repeatedly attending summer tuitions in Italy, France and Cyprus, attending regularly work-shops in Toronto, Germany and the Netherlands. In addition, ongoing private tuition has helped her to develop her own style. This exhibition showcases works from 2004.
Gudrun works mostly in acrylics on canvas, often using collage elements to enhance the subtlety of the poetic message. Most works are larger formats. Additionally, there is a continuing love for some smaller collage/mixed media work. These are generally lighter, quirkier in their messages than the larger “Urban Poetry†paintings, but they do show the same aesthetic approach.
Dr Gudrun Schmidt is a physician by training and holds an MBA from Brunel University, UK. She works in Research and Development of a large multinational pharmaceutical company. During the last 10 years she has lived in Canada, Germany, The Netherlands and has only arrived in Singapore in February last year. Painting has been claiming an ever increasing part of her private time. This is her first solo exhibition in Singapore.
Vernissage : 20 January 2005, Thursday, at 7pm
Venue : SG Private Banking Gallery,
Alliance Francaise de Singapour, 4th Floor
1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
(Newton MRT, parking facilities)
Public Viewing : Monday to Friday, 11am – 7pm; Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Closed on Sundays & Public Holiday
Admission : Free