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Semiose gallery is delighted to present a solo show dedicated to the German painter Aneta Kajzer, whose work is defined by her focus on color, while exploiting the drama of light conditions and playing on its own potential for multiple interpretations. Her painting blends abstract and semi-abstract elements. The “semi” is important here because it does not imply the use of figurative elements and the surfaces and forms of her paintings defy any unambiguous reading. Faces and figures the viewer might perceive, become spots and specks again with the next brushstroke and areas of color become storm clouds or natural features at the blink of an eye.
- Aneta Kajzer
- Sommersturm , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 180 ×
- 130 × cm
- 70 7/8 ×
- 51 1/8 × inches
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Description | Description:
Dans Sommersturm (« Orage d’été ») sourd une autre énergie. Le vaste vide est envahi par des nuages orageux. En dessous, côté droit, un cyclone pousse vers le haut. Juste à côté, en direction opposée : un délavé de bleu vers le bas rappelle un rideau de pluie. Également côté droit, un vert olive intense va en s’obscurcissant alors qu’il est éclairé par derrière. Un jaune sale et menaçant met en scène l’orage d’été.
In Sommersturm (Summer Storm) a different energy is brewing. The vast emptiness is taken up by approaching storm clouds. At the bottom, on the right-hand side of the canvas a cyclone pushes upwards, while from above, a sheet of blue fading into the yellow, reminds us of a curtain of rain. Also on the right, a patch of intense olive green becomes darker yet also seems to be lit from behind. A dirty, menacing yellow sets the scene for a summer thunderstorm.
Bibliographie | Bibliography:
• PALLOT, Hanna, "EXHIBIT XV Insight into the creative mind : carte blanche to 15 contemporary artists", Shadowplay, n°3, Fall - Winter, 2022 - 2023, Repr. pp. 205 - 209.
Expositions | Exhibitions:
• Head in the Clouds, Semiose, Paris, exhibition from November 19th to December 24th, 2022
- Aneta Kajzer
- Halunken , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 180 ×
- 130 × cm
- 70 7/8 ×
- 51 1/8 × inches
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- Sold
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Expositions | Exhibitions:
• Head in the Clouds, Semiose, Paris, exhibition from November 19th to December 24th, 2022
Bibliographie | Bibliography:
• PALLOT, Hanna, "EXHIBIT XV Insight into the creative mind : carte blanche to 15 contemporary artists", Shadowplay, n°3, Fall - Winter, 2022 - 2023, Repr. pp. 205 - 210.
- Aneta Kajzer
- Laich , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 90 ×
- 70 × cm
- 35 3/8 ×
- 27 1/2 × inches
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- Aneta Kajzer
- Humanoide , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 90 ×
- 70 × cm
- 35 3/8 ×
- 27 1/2 × inches
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- Aneta Kajzer
- Wo sich Frosch und Fuchs gute Nacht sagen , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 90 ×
- 70 × cm
- 35 3/8 ×
- 27 1/2 × inches
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- Aneta Kajzer
- Sirenes , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 200 ×
- 140 × cm
- 78 6/8 ×
- 55 1/8 × inches
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Description | Description:
Sirens pourrait être un paysage marin nocturne. Au milieu de la toile se détache le miroir de la mer : une lueur orange dans le ciel se transforme en forme violette sous l’eau.
Sirens could easily be a night-time seascape: the center of the canvas represents the surface of the sea and an orange glow in the sky becomes a purple figure under the water.
<p>Bibliographie | Bibliography</p>:
• DODDS, Rosanna, “Interior designer Rodolphe Parente talks taste”, Financial Times, September 2nd, 2023, online.
Expositions | Exhibitions:
• Head in the Clouds, Semiose, Paris, exhibition from November 19th to December 24th, 2022
For the exhibition “Head in the Clouds,” she has created a series of new paintings that appear lighter and more like watercolors. The dark skies of her earlier works are now fractured with white breaking through in many places. As in her darker paintings, color is of primary importance, appearing in a flow of sweeping brushstrokes and swirls, so typical of her work that they form a distinctive signature. [...] These great sweeps keep everything in motion and preclude purely figurative painting, while at the same time tickling purely abstract painting until it twists and turns and new figures emerge.
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- Aneta Kajzer
- Sunset Smoke , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 280 ×
- 190 × cm
- 110 2/8 ×
- 74 6/8 × inches
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Expositions | Exhibitions:
• Head in the Clouds, Semiose, Paris, exhibition from November 19th to December 24th, 2022
Bibliographie | Bibliography:
• PALLOT, Hanna, "EXHIBIT XV Insight into the creative mind : carte blanche to 15 contemporary artists", Shadowplay, n°3, Fall - Winter, 2022 - 2023, Repr. p. 205.
- Aneta Kajzer
- Über den Wolken , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 280 ×
- 190 × cm
- 110 2/8 ×
- 74 6/8 × inches
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Expositions | Exhibitions:
• Head in the Clouds, Semiose, Paris, exhibition from November 19th to December 24th, 2022
Description | Description:
Les mondes picturaux d’Aneta Kajzer sont ancrés dans la nature. Chez elle, le temps météorologique, le ciel, l’univers et la faune terrestre naissent de la couleur. Über den Wolken (« Au-dessus des nuages ») est une composition dynamique. Une sphère orange et rouge se dégrade vers le noir dans le coin supérieur droit de la toile et au beau milieu s’empilent des tourbillons nuageux bleu clair. Toutefois, il ne s’agit pas d’un orage en formation, mais d’un ami des nuages qui accompagne dans son vol le spectateur situé en dessous. Une impression bienveillante se dégage de la bouche orange et des yeux bleu foncé, même si le vaste mouvement de la bouche fouette vigoureusement l’air et l’eau. Au milieu du tableau, les nuages s’éloignent de la sphère, une vaste surface blanche reste vierge mais, entre les éléments de la nature, ce blanc semble soudain aussi profond que le noir de la nuit – une finesse dramaturgique.
Aneta Kajzer’s pictorial worlds are rooted in nature. The weather, skies, universe and earthly fauna are born from color. The painting Über den Wolken (Above the Clouds) is a wonderfully dynamic composition. A sphere of orange and red fades to black in the top right-hand corner of the canvas, while in the center, swirls of light blue clouds build up. This is however not a storm in the making, but a friendly cloud floating by, accompanying the viewer below. The orange mouth and dark blue eyes seem benevolent, even though the passing cloud’s momentum appears to vigorously whip up the air and water. On the center-left of the canvas, the clouds and orange sphere pull away from each other and a large white surface remains blank. Yet between these natural elements this white space suddenly seems as deep as the blackest of nights—a powerful dramaturgical flourish.
The embodiment of colors—as beings, ghosts and natural or meteorological elements—is typical of Aneta Kajzer’s visual language. Often the characters are shown as melancholic, brooding or in flight. They are always set in a dramatic staging of light and darkness, depth and shadow or of air and sky. Abstraction of course is the dominant factor, yet the variety of interpretative possibilities that arise from small touches such as those forming the faces, is quite astonishing. There is however no question of either / or in terms of abstraction or figuration. [...] Rigorous classifications have become outdated. Aneta Kajzer playfully demonstrates the freedom afforded to contemporary painting: bringing together whatever the painting asks for, painting what it needs and what it wants.
— Larissa Kikol
- Aneta Kajzer
- Kotek , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 280 ×
- 190 × cm
- 110 2/8 ×
- 74 6/8 × inches
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- Aneta Kajzer
- It‘s getting hot in here , 2022
- Oil on canvas
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- 180 ×
- 130 × cm
- 70 7/8 ×
- 51 1/8 × inches
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More abstract than CoBrA, more colorful than Joyce Pensato, Aneta Kajzer’s work sits assuredly in the ranks of Bad Painting. It eschews the normative concepts of the image, alternating between seriousness and humor and daringly treading the borderline between beauty and ugliness. Her deformed, diverse and sometimes-contradictory figures allow the spectator some insight into the artist’s social preoccupations: it is of no consequence if some things remain unresolved, as long as they exist. Her artistic process begins with her choice of colors and strokes, from which at first transitory forms emerge that constantly evolve before finally taking on their definitive shapes. In constant dialog with the motifs that appear on her canvases, Kajzer alternates between planned and intuitive gestures. She creates conflicting arrangements between abstraction and figuration, combining contradictory forms of expression. Often a perfectly placed comma of paint resolves the conundrum of the image as a whole, making full use of the phenomena of pareidolia and suggestive association.
Aneta Kajzer was born in 1989 in Katowice in Poland and lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Kunsthochschule Mainz and was awarded a residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 2018, she participated in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, a development program for female visual artists. Her work is regularly exhibited, particularly in shows dedicated to the contemporary rejuvenation of German art such as Now ! Painting in Germany Today in Deutschland, shown at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz and Museum Wiesbaden in 2019-2020. She has also enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions, most notably at the Conrads Gallery in Düsseldorf, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien and the Institut für Moderne Kunst in Nuremburg.
© Portrait by Renaud Monfourny
