Astrid Ritter

Spring fever

01.02.2005 - 31.03.2005

Since the beginning of February 2005 the artist Astrid Ritter, who lives in Wertheim, has been showing a true display of colours and structures. Astrid Ritter, born in 1945, graduate of the Würzburg Art School, studied at the art academies in Mannheim and Nuremberg. Meanwhile, she can look back at a long series of successful exhibitions both at home and abroad. In the LAUDA FabrikGalerie, Astrid Ritter is displaying a very special technique which she invented herself. It is a unique combination of the technique of painting pictures on the back of glass and collage. She cannot and does not wish to deny her origins as an illustrator and icon painter, yet she has arrived at the point where she has discarded all severity. Continuous diversity layered on top of each other which grows in a long creative process: that is her credo. And, in order to serve this credo, she uses all possible forms of expression in order to accompany the observer on long journeys of discovery. Strict forms, colours placed one on top of the other, decorative elements, handwriting, facial features: all of this divided over various levels of the image: it speaks of the desire for the fabulous, of the desire for colours and mysteries, of deductive skill and sensitivity to colour. Draft titles such as: War of emotions, the Dream dancer, Rainbow snake, Crossfire and many more transform the observer into a true buzz of colours. Their subjects continuously revolve around human existence, for which she finds extensive, richly metaphoric images derived from motifs from myths, legends and fairytales. Abstraction and figuration, decorative elements and expressive elements are combined with a rich array of colours – the result is fascinating, ambiguous works. In recent times, the artist has been taking up forms of abstract painting, and links strongly-coloured areas with representational backbeats and real stale ideas, creating effective memoirs. Again and again, Astrid Ritter displays in her works jokes and humour, thus displaying that, in her pensive view, the world is never without hope. Our photo shows two employees interested in art in front of the pictures painted on the back of glass by Astrid Ritter, which bear the draft titles of (from left to right): Rainbow snake, the Dream dancer and the War of emotions.

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