from: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
to: Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
In German artist Anne Neukamp’s ongoing series of works on paper, the grid structure found on the blank pages of a standard calendar becomes the site of painterly events and juxtapositions of disparate images. Sketches, handwriting, digital renderings, and newspaper clippings collide in these seemingly simple assemblages. They suggest the scattered yet repetitive rhythm of daily life, punctuated by bills, letters, question marks, laconic answers, dry snacks, and small change. The idiomatic motifs that populate her assemblages are imbued with the materiality of color in a way that recalls the artist’s daily practice. Day after day, Anne Neukamp confronts symbols and images destined for everyday efficiency, drawing them into a visual world that transforms their identity.
Anne Neukamp was born in Düsseldorf in 1976. She lives and works in Berlin.Her paintings create a floating state between representational motifs and an abstract, disjointed and lacunar cosmology.
She paints with oil and tempera on large canvases and alienates the vocabulary of visual communication that surrounds us: logotypes, emblems, icons, pictograms, signs – by rendering them fundamentally ambiguous.