Today, I am presenting works that deal with the complexity of interweaving. The first interweavings emerged in 1999.
Canvas stripes with applied paint—mainly earth and rock pigments—are interwoven and placed in a new spatial, mostly object-like context. The works are condensations of landscape, structure, and lines. They explore boundaries, mark transitions, and ask for cultural memories and their influence on us.
An early work from 1999 is entitled Kulturlandschaft/Cultural Landscape: Three Interconnections, each 80 × 100 cm with slate rock and a thin glaze of red earth from Italy (Siena). It is a floor work that has already been exhibited in several places, most recently in the showroom at Provisorium Nürtingen.
Over the years, further interweavings with earth and rock pigments have been created, including Interweaving XX from 2009 and Territories from 2010.
A current interweaving, created in 2024, is packaging, an object consisting of leftover packaging material and red thread. The object hangs from the ceiling and can be seen from both sides.
While, for example, the work Kulturlandschaft (Cultural Landscape) evokes an image of nature, packaging soberly refers to the artificial. The transformation of waste material into a artwork of art reflects our approach to consumption and excess.
The red thread hold several ribbons together; vulnerable and fragile, they not only reveal the seams but also point to connections.
Packaging, object, packaging material interwoven, thread, 80 x 50 cm (featured image).
Cultural Landscape, 1999, floor object, light slate/Siena applied to strips, interwoven, 3 parts, each 80 x 100 cm (No.1 below).
Interweaving XX, 2009, 8 different earth pigments on canvas, intertwined, 44 x 61 x 6 cm (No. 2 below).
Territories, 2010, Seven different earth and rock pigments on interwoven canvas strips, 165 x 130 (No. 3, below).
Dr. Marion Vogt wrote a text of the early interweavings in the catalog Layering, Interweaving, Compaction (2011).
Image rights VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb
