Gabriele Guenther (Gé)
Painter / Canada-Germany
Texture and colour are what count in Gabriele Guenther's world. She takes deep sensual pleasure in colours, landscapes; painting is a place of refuge for her, a meditation of sorts.
With palette knives or fingers, she attempts to recreate that whisper of a sound or movement that flits rather than gathers.
Born (Tokyo, 1955) and raised in Japan, educated at the University of Toronto (Canada), and having lived in Germany, France and the U.S., her atelier is now located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she often works with “objets re-trouvés”, as she calls them, to give them new form or lend them a more diverse reason-to-be –- new roots, much in keeping with her own history.
Also a poet, her work has been widely published in Canada, the U.S., and Britain. Her audio-drama Borderline: From the Shadows of a Journey for two voices and five instruments (music by Achim Kaufmann featuring the Vancouver-based group “Talking Pictures” and db boyko – vocalist) which premiered at the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2007 will be released on CD in late 2008.
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"we get a richness
as found in the reflecting material of gold and copper
coloring. The various textual treatments add spark as well as the vertical presentation"
(Upsteam People Gallery, NE, U.S.A.)
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Gallery Comment :
Visual poetry is what we see in Gabriele's works. She interacts with the "materia", with thick impastos and sculpted gestures and sees the potential spirit residing in found objects to give them new life by converting and exalting them as art objects.
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F E A T U R E D A R T W O R K
"Sleeper in Red "
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Artwork information and Pricing :
- After Hokusai, 2007,
oil/copper leaf on wood, 80 x 117 cm, € 3,100 euro
- Duchesse, 2005/06, copper leaf/mixed media on wood panels,
129 x 46 x 33 cm, € 2,800 euro
- The Election and Ensuing Catastrophe, 2008, acrylic/mixed media on found object, 40 x 82 cm, € 1,800 euro
- Paraph, 2006, copper leaf/mixed media on Formica panel,
71 x 70 x 3 cm, €3,100 euro
- Aerial, from the “Improvisations on War” Series, 2004,
oil/mixed media on hardwood, 118 x 58 cm, € 2,400 euro
- Dance-ploding, from the “Improvisation on War” Series, 2008, oil/mixed media/wood on wood panel & hardwood, 60.5 x 127 x 3 cm, € 2,600 euro
- The Qur’tain, from the “Improvisation on War” Series, 2005
mixed media on canvas on wood, 57 x 97 cm, € 1,800 euro
- Afterwards, from the “Improvisation on War” Series, 2006,
oil/pigments/wax/silver leaf on canvas on wood, 94 x 76 cm, € 2,250 euro
- Silent Revolution, 2004/05 (sextych), acrylic on canvas (2)
and wood panels (4), 109 x 195 cm, € 3,400 euro
- Cathedral City (after Kokoschka), 2007, oil on wood panel,
55 x 123 cm, € 2,100 euro
- Train Station, 2004/07, oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm, € 3,100
- Death at Sunset, 2006, oil/mixed media on canvas,
30 x 40 cm, € 850 euro
Shipping info :
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If you are interested in purchasing one of the artworks presented here or if you would like further information about the artist please contact : elizabeth@artromgallery.com
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