Evelin Neukirchen

“The forest in all its richness” in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie

01.10.2006 - 30.11.2006

Evelin Neukirchen has been living and working in Würzburg for 2 years. She became involved in painting back in 1980, initially autodidactically, then took lessons and familiarised herself with the watercolour technique. She now prefers the technique of superimposing different colours, and works mainly with acrylic paints, gouache and oil pastels. For Evelin Neukirchen, the forest in all its richness and its forms is a refuge. The paintings show up the seasonal rhythm of the trees in line with the annual cycle felt by each and every person. The artist’s particular liking for the autumn can be felt: this corresponds to its unique connection of a multitude of colours on the one hand, and the melancholy of decay on the other hand. Spring, according to the artist, doesn’t keep all its promises. Autumn, on the other hand, is all the more extravagant. None of the paintings exhibited in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie were painted “on location”, as it were: they were all created in the studio. They are not visual representations of the objective existence: they are the artistic interpretation of intensely personal impressions which she has collected and implemented. Each painting is its own drama, with colours and forms being assigned their own roles. Colourfulness becomes magnificent richness here. It dissolves there. Elsewhere, flowingly soft transitions dominate. Somewhere else, opposites explode. The paintings are attractive, which cannot be said about the works of many a contemporary artist. Despite this beauty, you can feel a tense conflict, that of the extensive application and linear structures, which prevent the play of colours losing itself in pleasure. It is an old supposition that colour stands for the emotional, and the linear form stands for the rational. Even though the comparisons are actually more complex, the paintings can be interpreted as a dynamic combination of emotion and rationale, and the observer can take in the paintings at both levels – some more from the emotional point of view, some more from the rational point of view. The artist wishes to leave it up to the interested visitors to the exhibition to be addressed by the paintings in their own way. The free exhibition in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie is open for viewing during business hours from the beginning of October until the end of November.
More information about the artist:
www.evelin-neukirchen.de

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