AIR Talk
Artist Talk
by Esther Horn
Here is a painter who deals directly with figure and atmosphere within a setting of uncertainly, and yet develops and transforms the improbable into site specific wall paintings. German artist Esther Horn’s artworks project an intimate relationship between people and their environment.
Her “ Night Visions represent a kind of painting that originates in light and color. Yet, on that basis, it develops its own nocturnal language. If not altogether absent, the few human figures appear dimly under the starless sky, anticipated in cars and campers. Suspected behind steamy phone booth windows. A secret lies quietly in the vast spaces and landscapes….”
In another piece of art work “Mean Shadow of a God”, Esther Horn invented a scene out of her own fantasy that resulted in an imaginary landscape on a specific wall space. “ She creates a field of bright colors on her dark canvas that provides the stage for her nocturnal visions. Even though many of her paintings seem to reproduce scenes from mysterious road movies, the relationship of her work with cinema goes way beyond her choice of subject matter only…”
Bio
Esther Horn (b. 1965, Bensberg, Germany) is a German contemporary artist who did a residency program with the Lost Generation Art Space in 2010 with the support of the Goethe-Institut Malaysia.
A German Artist Residency Project collaboration with Goethe-Institut Malaysia
Date
27th Jan 2010
Time
3:30pm – 5:00 pm
Venue
Dasein Academy of Art, Lecture Hall
