“Choose your words wisely!”
Visualized alliteration in the works of Veronika Erhart
As a graduated Fashion Designer, Veronika Erhart is interested in minimalistic and conceptional paintings particularly as an artist. This intensive occupation is visible considerably in her work.
For many of its works is the lack of income as regards content, its diminution on one color, a form and a picture reason underlining it, indicating? Its works often disclose themselves, at e.g. the foil objects and pallets, only from the consideration of the layers, the meaning of single glazes and from the combination and transparency of the painting and the absorptive ground of the art. Stratifications, plaits and convexities are Veronika Erhart an important topic in the works. Including the room gets another dimension in "Hüllfrequenzen" (2004), an acoustic one. Veronika Erhart has single sentences of Miguel Ángel Ruiz's "The four Promises" transferred to warped aluminium plates here. Material complexities were shifted in symbolic meaning strata.
It similarly behaves painted heads on offset plates, layered filled in applied with the series "Kopfungen" (2004/2005). The blurred grey tones, white topics and contours indicated obtain a weird aura. This series arranges a mystical attention. Which condition this one actually keeps watch and which is the absent, the counter-part to check for itself in which the observer seems called awake and sleep condition compares "Schlafende Köpfe". Second-hand offset plates whose former use is still visible enlarge the work around memories of experienced already before which is possibly present in the heads of the represented nature.
Offset plates that melt together with different varnished layers painted to a unity are a chronological subsequent series. Single plates can be grouped newly again and again. Veronika Erhart understands the colour levels as landscapes put on top of each other as objects, which conquer the room and penetrate it as coincidental.
Further works from Veronika Erhart increases the monochrome execution by the use of white paint. She places corrugated aluminum plates as an installation in the room very strongly. This intensive discussion with the perception seeming to have been translated into the third dimension from room. The white "Aluminum Waves" utilizes the room, enlarge it make of what can visibly be aware only with the hearing otherwise.
Veronika Erhart reduced her works on this absolutely to make her discussion with the base elements to the perception visibly. Painting becomes feeling a mediator between a real and mystical world, between rational tactics and spiritually.
A Red Line, which can be pursued up to, the youngest works of her.
Mag. Tina A. Teufel, MAS
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