Bettina Van Haaren
Painting | Drawing | Graphic >>>Germany | Lives and works in Witten and Dortmund
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Conditional areas
I am a painter developing areas of figure-object-relations on my canvases. Starting points are inner realities and the direct sensory perception of world. The figure, the self-image, is observed as in objects splitted and combined with the surrounding ones. As a result of having doubts about ideals and because of missing identity with the complete body, my figures appear objectively dissociated fragmentary and are un-intact.
I will describe the process of development by setting the self-figure at the beginning, the following creation of the surrounding area with objects and the unpredictable process. The objects create a non-unit action-space for the figure, which acted and will act in the future. In some cases they seem to be incompatible, not following the function and appear to be marginal. But by compositional knotting and formal jumping, mental shifting and new meanings are formed. Only the visitor´s mobile perception allows entering the canvas-area. Isolated, pointed and simultaneous the elements of the picture force mobile attention and the ability of synopsis.
overview = preview
Conditional areas
I am a painter developing areas of figure-object-relations on my canvases. Starting points are inner realities and the direct sensory perception of world. The figure, the self-image, is observed as in objects splitted and combined with the surrounding ones. As a result of having doubts about ideals and because of missing identity with the complete body, my figures appear objectively dissociated fragmentary and are un-intact.
I will describe the process of development by setting the self-figure at the beginning, the following creation of the surrounding area with objects and the unpredictable process. The objects create a non-unit action-space for the figure, which acted and will act in the future. In some cases they seem to be incompatible, not following the function and appear to be marginal. But by compositional knotting and formal jumping, mental shifting and new meanings are formed. Only the visitor´s mobile perception allows entering the canvas-area. Isolated, pointed and simultaneous the elements of the picture force mobile attention and the ability of synopsis.