Karin Monschauer
The embroidery technique has always fascinated the artist Karin Monschauer, permitting her to externalize the connection and the interweaving of colors and shapes. Historically, this methodology, ‘raqm’ in Arabic, allows to create an ornamental design on fabric through the use of one or more threads of different colors.
The digital artist Karin draws on her initially manual skills and uses software designed for art design to create abstract works rich in geometric evolutions, connected to each other with a wide tonal range, divided between hot and cold areas.
In this juxtaposition, Karin proposes visual languages characterized by ideas obtained through pure imagination, as well as explicit reference to nature and textures created by the skills of old and modern masters. The latter refer to those Middle Eastern carpets that the Luxembourg-born artist creates at her computer, with the ambivalence between past and present always within her productions.
In 2015, thanks to computer graphics, Karin begins the geometric and chromatic cycle of her current artistic production. In fact, her computer graphics methodology challenges the traditional artistic action made by brushes and acrylic colors, because different hardwares and softwares elaborate her creativity into works with high perceptiveness. The figure-backgrounds that Karin obtains provide infinite interpretations that live simultaneously.
The digital realizations are printed afterwards in high definition on canvas, obtaining works of different sizes. As a demonstration of this approach, Karin’s realizations are characterized by various codes that are combined in fantastic, artificial universes inside an abstract geometry.
The combinations derived are always punctual within a creative process, providing the observer with a never static sensation. Thanks to the Gestalt psychology, a perception of induced movement and good continuity is determined.
Karin digitally paints undefined scents that every human being interprets and follows.
Currently, her art is permanently represented with one work at the European Art Museum, Frederiksvaerk, Denmark, and four works at Le Bois Du Cazier Museum, Charleroi, Belgium.
Switzerland
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