Kristin Becker

"Colourful dreamworld"

01.07.1998 - 31.08.1998

The artist was born in 1931 and lives and works in Schöntal near Künzelsau. She initially concentrated on sculpture and later moved to painting, in fact four years ago. Kristin Becker says that for her, the area of the unconscious plays an essential part in the origin of her pictures. "The image grows and develops from a first impulse which often has its root in a previous dream." This is then followed by up to ten revisions to develop and give the final touches to the image presentation. Kristin Becker’s pictures fall into the category of the so-called "concrete paintings" and are not abstract art, as one might easily assume. This becomes evident on closer evaluation since she does not abstract from things and objects of the real world but develops her work purely from within the artist. Considered formally, these are textured areas of colour in which contrasting pairs such as light and dark, near and far, or light-footed and ponderous are carefully played off against each other. In certain paintings, the use of fire clay and sand as additional material achieves a relief-type sensible surface structure, producing something like an imaginary landscape. Light and colour, growing hesitatingly and mysteriously from a deeply shadowy ground, are the main creative media of the artist.

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