Christine Wieland
Germany
CROSS MEDIA PAINTING
Contemporary life
One of the most important tasks of art is to capture the expression of the respective period, to document it and to comment on it. Many possibilities of description are available. I have chosen the objective narrative way.
Which are the prominent features of our time?
Terrific progress of technics and biologies, omnipresence of all kinds of media, intensive leisure time structuring, worldwide social changes, global networks etc.
It’s a vast area and therefore it’s easy to find material everyday and everywhere.Here the principle “collect and use” applies..
Once a topic has captivated brain and heart archives and and current media are searched through for more information.
CROSS MEDIA PAINTING uses the services of the press, magazines, movies, TV, internet, chronicles, advertising etc.
Interesting fragments of information from various fields are combined to form a new piece of information, namely my narrative.
It is very important for me to develop works that are full of secrets and not always immediately and easily legible for the beholder and that allow different interpretations. Partly they are documents of everyday life or they are comments on political and social events and sometimes on the media themselves.
Once the story has been drafted the painting process is so to speak just a question of choosing the right style of narrative.
"Christine Wieland entwirft Bilder einer sich rasch verändernden Welt und greift Fixpunkte aus dem Leben unserer Massenmedien-Gesellschaft heraus, in der alles gleichzeitig passiert und dokumentiert wird.
Hier wird kein globaler Stil propagiert, stattdessen zeichnet Christine Wieland in ihrer typischen Manier Informationen, Situationen und Lokalitäten. Die Schönheit des Moments, die Ästhetik technischer Geräte, aber auch das „Brüchigwerden“ des Fortschrittglaubens hält sie in ihren Arbeiten fest.
In der neuen Serie TINY hat eine Reduktion stattgefunden, die jedoch nur das Format betrifft, nicht die Ideen und Sujets. Es werden einfach nur noch Ausschnitte aus allem gezeigt."
Dr. Margrit Lurz, Kunsthistorikerin