This in-between, which arises through the two dimensional surface of canvas/wall and the strategy of (painterly) illusion, is the space which Bea Winkler explores and analyses.
In the exhibition tilted surface Bea Winkler (Hamburg) presents her newest works on canvas and one wall painting which questions the limits and possibilities of painting. The artist is fascinated by the (seemingly) paradox concerning painting, which creates a room illusion within the flatness:“…there are breaking perspectives which create spatiality but simultaneously refer to flatness and the clear limitation of the canvas.“ (Winkler)
… there are perspectives that refract themselves, they construct dimensionality and point to the flatness and the clear limitation of the canvas at the same time.”
Bea Winkler
This in-between, which arises through the two dimensional surface of canvas/wall and illusion, is the space Bea Winkler analyses. During her expeditions it’s all about the questions: What is a picture and how does painting work?
I’m interested in the paradox of surface and illusionism: There are these two opposite ways of taking care of the problem and from today’s point of view it’s basically not possible to look at them seperately from each other. There is this fascination through fiction, through images and stories, but simultaneously I know that I can’t trust this fascination, and then I begin to analyse everything. Thereby, a constant jumping is created, a movement between those two dimensions (fiction and analysis). The point where this tilts is what I find exciting (Tilted surface), where it works in both directions and as a result, one possibly understands more clearly.”
Bea Winkler
Material for the exhibition
- Invitation
- Press Release (in German)
- Exhibition Publication (in German)