Paintings by Ingrid Simons for Alone Together

top: Chegando A Casa, 2010, oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm
second: Le Foret Noir IV, 2010, oil on linen, 60 x 50 cm
third: Le Foret Noir II, 2010, oil on linen, 80 x 80 cm
lower: Finsternis I, 2010, oil on linen, 50 x 60 cm

For this exhibition, Ingrid’s new paintings are artist’s interpretations of her own en plein air photos from which are then executed in the studio in oil with a contemporary twist of a minimalist palette. The brush strokes and textures that she employs must be seen in person to fully appreciate the depth of these works, a true contemporary version of classic impressionism. Her dreamy and somewhat ominous landscape paintings in black and white seem to float before the viewer. She explains, “I am searching for an atmosphere of “Unheimlichkeit”, stillness and decay. Frozen scenes, like in a film-still, unrelated to time and within that given their dualism, is what fascinates me. The use of overexposure, through which areas that are painted as a flat surface of color, but in the context of the painting also reveal something figurative and three dimensional, are also such a dualism. The field of tension fascinates me.”

Ingrid’s works have been exhibited in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and the USA as well as in museums and numerous private collections. This will be her first exhibition in Berlin.

For more information on the artist and her works please contact : twowindowproject@yahoo.de