The Art of Katharina Grosse Katharina Grosse (*1961) is a classical painter she works surfaces with colors. Yet, what may…
The Art of Katharina Grosse
Katharina Grosse(*1961) is a classical painter she works surfaces with colors. Yet, what may sound trivial turns into a profund search of the mediums possibilities and restrictions. The starting point of Grosses works is first and foremost the carrier and material that she uses to determine and at the same time diffuse her practice. Her painted or sprayed color-fields always contextualize the later transformed surface or object while at the same time adding another layer advancing the painting into a different dimension. Common reality seems to be covered up by a coat of colours, placed on top of each work like a fog. In addition to an in-situ installation consisting of three trees that clog the museums´s side-room in an explosion of material and colors, a variety of works purely on paper give an overview of Grosse´s practice of the last 20 years. An extensive collection ranging from monographic colour-fields to sprayed patterns and fields, allows for a comprehensive insight into an artistic development leading to todays stage where two – and three dimensional works exist next to each other, complementing and enhancing each other.