“Dragon Fly” German Female Artist Charlotte Eschenlohr
- Solo Exhibition -Preface By Tang Yue
German female artist Charlotte Eschenlohr’s solo exhibition“Dragon Fly” will grandly open at WITHSPACE Gallery on 22nd June, 2013. This exhibition will show artist’s two types of latest works, one is Acrylic painting on digital print and the other is drawing on paper.
Charlotte Eschenlohr’s paintings are a mixture of photograph, collage and acrylic painting， the combination of different kind of art makes a surprising esthetic scene. Photography itself is an independent art form actually; Charlotte Eschenlohr makes the photos as background of acrylic painting, making it an astonishing stack effect. This is not a simple “making them together” thing but an artistic processing. The photos themselves are telling us stories, which are either simple or complex, either happy or distressed, all the stories in the photos are true reflection of artist’s mood at certain moment. But when artist drawing again on the photos, the works were changed in a subtle way,They were fulfilled with another story. Two layers combined into one scene and a subtle chemical reaction was shown on it. It is rich and colorful paintings impression viewer so much that people cannot help to stop and stare at it. And in Charlotte Eschenlohr’s painting we also see the in the succession of the new German expressionism which happened in late 70's and early 80's. They focus on painting itself and go strong on showing paintings as they are. They are exploring every aspect of art including color, form and content trying to find a unequal language that belong to art itself only.
And in her drawings, Artist uses the seemingly simple lines to sketch complicate relationship between people. In her works depicted part of a story, mostly got it from our daily life, through the rough lines, bright colors, to show the artist's tenderly emotion. Those paper works are not big in size, its story-telling style makes it simple and easy to understand, and also close to life. Artist use concentrated way to show its image in an outstanding vivid picture and let it show works vivid stereo.
It is hard to imagine that the artist MS Eschenlohr was a very successful business woman, seemingly this absolutely two jobs are not related, but in her works burst out of brilliant spark. Accurate figures gave her the delicate feelings. Deft strokes, flexible thinking gave her inspiration. we selected “dragon fly” to be her exhibition title because of in her art works appear the image of dragon, highlighted artist deep love to China, identification of the Chinese culture. Since ancient times, the dragon as a symbol has been recognized by the world all the time. Dragon always is the symbol of the Chinese nation. It contains a kind of awe and yearning, and upward hope. This is our held for her first solo exhibition at china original attention.
“龙图腾”德国女性艺术家夏洛特埃森洛尔个展 前言 ——唐越
2013年6月22日，德国女性艺术家Charlotte Eschenlohr（夏洛特.埃森洛尔）的个展“Dragon Fly(龙图腾)”在WITHSPACE画廊隆重开幕 。本次展览将展出艺术家两种类型的新作，一类为综合材质的绘画，一类为纸上作品。
艺术家的绘画作品融合了摄影，拼贴，绘画等多种艺术形式。摄影本身就是一种艺术形式，艺术家在照片上进行创作，追求二者叠加的效果。这不是简单的结合，而是艺术的“二重奏”。照片本身在叙述着一个故事，或单纯或复杂，或欢喜或忧伤，它们是艺术家某种时刻心情的真实反映。但是当艺术家在这些照片上再次进行创作的时候，她的心态发生了某种转变，从而又叠加出另一个故事。二者巧妙地结合在同一个画面上，产生了微妙的化学反应。层叠色彩的堆积，强烈的视觉冲击力让人不禁驻足。我们从中看到了早在70年代末80年代初德国新表现主义的继承，竭力主张还原绘画以本来面目，注重绘画性、探索内容、色彩、形式的自我语言。
而在艺术家的纸上作品中，看似简单的线条勾勒出人与人之间难以言喻的复杂关系。画面中描绘的场景大多是日常生活中撷取的某些片段，通过粗狂的线条勾勒，丰富而艳丽的色彩描绘，展现了艺术家细腻的情感。这些作品尺寸都不大，类似小品的呈现方式让人感觉格外亲切，简单易懂，贴近生活。艺术家运用浓缩的手法来突出画面感，使其所呈现的形象更生动立体。
很难想象，艺术家 Charlotte Eschenlohr（夏洛特.埃森洛尔）曾是一名成功的商界女性，过往的经历和看似毫不相干的背景却意外地赋予了她的作品一种独特的情感触角，细腻灵动地视觉表达。我们将此次展览的主题命名为“Dragon Fly(龙图腾)”系列，因为艺术家作品中频频出现龙的形象，彰显着艺术家对中国的深沉热爱，对中国文化的认同。自古以来，龙一直作为中国形象的一个标志被世界所认同，龙代表着中华民族的精神，它蕴含着一种敬畏和向往，一种向上的希望。这也是我们此次为她在中国举办首个个展的初衷。展览将持续至7月中旬。