Christel Krüger

Imaginative play of colours in numerous adaptations

01.06.2007 - 31.07.2007

A new exhibition adorns the LAUDA FactoryGallery rooms. Since the beginning of June 2007, Christel Krüger, who originates from Königshofen, has been showing a selection of her artistic works. The autodidact Christel Krüger has been an enthusiastic and committed painter since her schooldays. In the past, a career and a truly challenging role as wife and mother were never really quite fulfilling enough for the now retired postal clerk. On top of her longstanding sporting activities as an exercise instructor, she was still able to devote time to her hobbies of painting and clay modelling. As a consequence, in the 70's Christel invested in her own kiln in order to fire the figures she produced herself. Then, at the start of the 90's, the artist rediscovered her love of painting; images that at first were representational, gradually transformed into abstraction. In the meantime, she "dissects" a face or subject into graphic colour areas, creates interlocking colour segments, spirals and octopus-like forms contrasted against stark geometric lines – whereby colour always dominates in the form of an imaginative play of colours. Typical, even characteristic, of Christel Krüger's graphically artistic works is the way she is able to express her own fantasies and ideas while simultaneously realising her own personal and optically visual language. The works exhibited in the LAUDA FactoryGallery achieve a superb balance between representationalism and abstraction. In a multi-facetted and imaginative play of colours, the bright acrylic paints motivate the observer, who is urged to accept, look closely, discover and, of course, question the various subjects. This ingenious play of colours in the LAUDA FactoryGallery is open to art enthusiasts during normal working hours until the end of July 2007.

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