{"id":108,"date":"2015-03-03T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T17:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artificialis.eu?p=108"},"modified":"2015-06-08T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:58:53","slug":"artwork-of-the-month-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Artwork of the month \/ March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"14<\/a>

\u00a9Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckner<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00ab 14 Tage Sonne in S\u00fcdfrankreich \u2013 ab heute \u00bb<\/strong><\/em>
\n(14 days of sun in the south of France \u2013 from today)
\nKirsten Kl\u00f6ckner<\/p>\n

2014
\n40 cm x 30 cm
\nWatercolour on paper<\/p>\n

G. Pf. wished this painting in the context of Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckners series Wunschprogramm (desired programme), part three of her project BeuteKunst (looted art).<\/p>\n

To satisfy the desire for fourteen days of sun in south of France shouldn\u2019t generally be a big problem in the chosen area. So this wish is, on the first view, an easy one. But how should an artist manage it in this proposed special time schedule? And after all, how can an artist express fourteen days of sun? Knowing some of Kirsten\u2019s artworks one may imagine that the result might be somehow with floral ornaments taking for example from lavender which is typical for the area or more or less abstracted beach- and seaside-impressions. Even something colourful, bathed in sunlight is conceivable.<\/p>\n

However Kirsten surprised with fourteen squares on soft yellow ground. The colour in these squares is light blue with approximate round white sectors of different diameters in the middle of each. They are looking a bit like picture-frames or windows, opening the view to a blue sky with bright sunshine. Yellow and orange stripes, looking like coloured adhesive tapes are lying irregular over the frames, giving the impression of sunrays.<\/p>\n

This is Kirsten\u2019s interpretation of fourteen days of sun in the south of France. For each day there is a square with a glistering bright sky. The intensive sunrays are breaking out of these frames, to underline their force. Finally the fourteen days of sun are starting with the completion of the painting, but they will last forever.<\/p>\n

Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckner \u2013 BeuteKunst – looted art<\/strong><\/p>\n

The presented painting is one of several artworks from Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckners series BeuteKunst III (Looted Art III). The term \u201clooted art\u201d has in our time rather a negative connotation. Nevertheless Kirsten uses it in a positive sense: to point out the origin of her inspiration. To underline the development from the source to the final artwork, she documented the working process of the two former series of this project: BeuteKunst I and II, during the exhibitions, on her blog<\/a><\/span> and in two books.<\/p>\n

For the project BeuteKunst I (Looted Art I) she focused for one year on the collection of the Kunstarchiv Beeskow<\/a><\/span> \/ Art Archive Beeskow, Germany. The here preserved art works were originally commissioned by, bought by or donated to the former state German Democratic Republic (GDR). The artistic outcome from Kirsten\u2019s forays in this collection gives a new view on the works: in her paintings she pilfers elements of the existing pictures, for example a helmet, a cup, a drinking bag and puts it in a new context.
\n(Exhibition 2012: Galerie des St\u00e4dtischen Museums Eisenh\u00fcttenstadt<\/a><\/span>, Germany \/ Gallery of the municipal museum of Eisenh\u00fcttenstadt)
\nThe source of inspiration of the series BeuteKunst II has a total different nature. Kirsten selected living persons, who attracts her interest somehow, to be her muses and portrayed them. They are fellow artists, a singer and writer, a little boy, a famous gastronome, a poet \u2026 However, the results are not portraits in the conventional sense, but she captured their activities, preferences and\/or characteristics. So the pictures of her muses have nothing to do with their physical appearance. Instead the paintings are showing floral and zoomorphic Ornaments, red and pink rings or perhaps isolated elements like in BeuteKunst I such as a Panda or a curtain. (Exhibition 2013: Akademie der K\u00fcnste<\/a><\/span> \/ Academy of Arts, Berlin)<\/p>\n

Since 2014 Kirsten is once again on hunting. She is chasing wishes. In December 2013 she started her Wunschprogramm (desired programme). Friends, chance acquaintances and contacts on social networks can express their wishes. These dreams, ideas and longings find a visual expression in Kirsten\u2019s paper works. The yearning for the end of madness got translated into a town-exit-sign, the vision of new politics for refugees became a house with a big heart in it and the wish of an image of a female worker is the picture of a woman with huge hands.
\nThe Wunschprogramm isn\u2019t finished jet, so you may express your wishes to leave it to Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckner<\/a><\/span>\u2019s interpretation and imagination to make them come true.<\/p>\n

Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born 1962 in Braunschweig, Germany, Kirsten lives and works in Berlin since 2002. From 1983 to 1986 she studied sculpture at the academy of arts (Kunstakademie), M\u00fcnster. 1990 she opened the edition-gallery \u201cEdition Kl\u00f6ckner\u201d in D\u00fcsseldorf, where she published graphics and multiples from A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Klaus Staeck and many others. Her own works had been shown in many personal and group exhibitions and her works are in several major art collections. Two publications about the first two parts of BeuteKunst are published by the Luftschiff Verlag, Bruchweiler-B\u00e4renbach (Germany): BeuteKunst I and Musenbesuch \u2013 BeuteKunst II. A third book about Wunschprogramm \u2013 BeuteKunst III is in preparation.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.kirsten-kloeckner.de<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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