Bodam, 2024

Drawings with earth, stone, ink

The sheets with the title bodam* include various series, between two and eighteen sheets, totally 76 sheets. Here are some examples to see. One part was in the Groupexhibition DESERTIFICATION im Kunstverein Neuhausen, (09.29-11.29, 2024).

Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb has been working with the fine pigment for over 25 years which she receives from the Jurafango site in Bad Boll. She creates works on paper and canvas, installations and drawings. Over the years, she has also added earth pigments, earth that she digs up in places she has traveled and processes into paint. She obtains earth and stone, to which she has no access, from a dealer who travels all over the world.

Soil used:
Stadtacker (Stuttgart-Nord), 2024
Baugrube Rosensteinpark Stuttgart, 2015
Rügener Kreide, Rügen*
Schiefermehl grau-grün, Steinkreide*
Rote Erde aus Argentinien, 1999
Grüne Erde aus Kirchberg/Jagst, 2023
Rote Erde aus Algerien, 2005
Cote D’Azur Violett, Schweiz*
Rote Erde aus Kapstadt (District 6), 2017
Ocker aus Gundelfingen (am Hang in Richtung Dürrenstetten), 2016
Rote Erde aus Italien (im Gebiet der Toskana), 2023
Erde von den Cahokia-Mounds, Illinois, USA, 2023
Opalrot, Halbedelstein, Arizona, USA
Grüner Opalit, Colorado, USA
Ocker aus dem Taunus, aus dem Gebiet der Oberen Lahn*
Ölschiefer aus Bad Boll, Deutschland

Photo above: W.T., Drawing, Soil, Rügener Kreide, of the Series #4.
Photos, sequence of the images:
Series #11, #13 (four of seven), #10, parts of the series with soil in the exhibition.
Totally 76 sheets, 15 x 21 cm each.
Drawing with earth, stone, ink and fineliner. Photo Credits alle Fotos: Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb
Bildrechte VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb.

*These pigments are from Kremer Pigmente.