The artist Brigitte Waldach deals with socio-critical themes such as the German Autumn, terrorism, religion and the role of men and women – tough, loud subject matter. However, her drawings are delicate and strong, poetic and political at the same time.
On the clean walls of the Kunsthalle are written characteristics of men and women.
A mesh of red and blue threads connects the white walls and the concrete floor.
Visitors to the exhibition wander through a jungle of drawings.
A unique spatial experience, as different images emerge from every perspective.
The 49-year-old creative artist, who was born in Berlin and has lived and worked in the hip capital ever since, has always found it important to deal with topics that concern everyone. They are existential themes. They are about love, about death, about incomprehension. The Baselitz master student devotes herself to the medium of space in all its facets: “It can be the landscape space or the two-dimensional pictorial space. But it can just as well be real space, which always has an effect.”
“Brainbox Ideology” is the name of her current installation, which she is currently exhibiting at Kunsthalle Brandts in Denmark. The spatial drawing is a colorful 3D drawing: “I see a space, react to the space and can actually already see how it could be tensed and worked on. And then it starts. I detach the line from the two-dimensionality and continue to draw the rubber band material in space.” The result is a minimalist mesh of red and blue threads that continue the written words, characteristics of man and woman, in the built environment. The wall drawing seems to literally expand into the third dimension. Walls and volumes thus merge through reduced creative means into a total work of art that resembles sculptures by Fred Sandback. Since 2002, red has been the predominant color in her drawings, photographs and installations.
A unique spatial experience, as visitors wander around Waldach’s drawing and each type of apparent definition changes again and again with every step.
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