PAINTING SESSIONS HAVE STARTED :)!
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Liebermann's Villa in Wannsee, one of my all time favorite inspirational places in the surrounding areas of Berlin. After the war his villa and gardens were re-build after the orginal plans. It reminds of the gardens of Monet. Always a perfect place to reconnect and regain energy after some intense painting sessions in the studio last week. As I am here three months, I want to visit these gardens every month to see the change and progress in these gardens, now that I have the chance . The work in the studio is going well. Already the concept of two thematic series have arisen and I have started painting them. (P.s. this first series on small scale, a "historic" series, will be (partly) on show during the exhibition "Lockdown Berlin, Past, Present, Future" at Livingstone Gallery, The Hague. I will return from Berlin shortly to elaberate about these new serie on show (freshly painted) during the meet & greet on Sunday the
This is a photo of the first week of the residency. I always have to get acquianted with the studio, the noises, the light. And also clear my mind, get new impressions and connect with the place and location I will be working in. The city of Berlin I have already known a long time (about 20 years I have been coming and going), but then espcially the neighbourhood of Kreuzberg, around Gorli. With this residency it was relatively easy, because I have worked here before when Livingstone Projects Berlin invited me for the first time in 2018. I started with writing down thoughts, walking around the neighbourhood, making plans, settling in the studio and investigating through internet. During this residency I will paint a new collection for the solo exhibition at Livingstone Gallery, The Hague, that will open in November. During a residency it is so good to fully concentrate and emerge myself fully into my work and research. An
My first exhibition stop, when I arrived in Berlin, and a very important one : "Places / Orte" Claude Monet Barberini Museum in Potsdam. It was quite difficult to get a ticket in these strange times, but I managed! A beautiful Monet exhibition, especially because I thought to have seen a lot of the beautiful Monet's in the The Hague exhibition in January, but all different paintings. The fascination we share of bodies of water. it is unbelievable how he paint these series, especially the series where it gets more and more foggy, or more and more abstract. It was perfect timing, to get much painterly inspiration before starting this 3 month residency. Some close ups, which I find fascinating : These "redondo" Nympheas are very special to me and especially to meeting them again in this exhibition! I have, up till now visited th
One of the other artists them I am researching closely since my residency in Norway (2019), where I experienced one of his skyspaces in Hardangervidda, is James Turrell. Yesterday I visited one of his installations in Berlin. Not a skyspace, but still very intriguing. I was curious in which length this would be the "same" experiece as the skyspae piece in Norway, which was also my first visited skyspaces, but even the second time around (with rain) it was an experience. Here at this diffferent location and installation, in the middle of a town center and not nature, what and how intense would my experience be? The intensity in which he pulls you in as a viewer and makes you experience this light and this installation physically is something that I also aim to do in my paintings. In this chapel of mourning they show the second half of the first hour and the first half of the second hour of the installation. Especially the second 30 minutes I found really
During my residencies I tent to zoom in on specific artists to study further. Armando with his strong connection to Potsdam and the war is one of them during this residency. Here in Berlin the history of war is still so vividly alive on many street corner. My first seres on small scale will be inspired by this, the past and present of certain locations and the mixture of them. A quote : ".. Armando introduceerde de term "schuldige bomen, bossen en landschappen", omdat ze getuige zijn geweest van gruwelijke oorlogshandelingen.... "Het bos heeft alles gezien en toegelaten, zonder een woord te zeggen. En het staat er nog steeds : onbewogen als altijd" (Armando uit "Aantekeningen over de vijand", 1981)
Ik ben door Livingstone Projects Berlin uitgenodigd voor een werkperiode van drie maanden n.a.v. de toekenning van de tweede prijs van de Berlin Prize (2019). Ik ga tijdens deze werkperiode aan een nieuwe collectie werken, die vanaf zondag 15 november 2020 te zien zal zijn in een solo-expositie bij Livingstone Gallery in Den Haag. Voor meer informatie a.u.b. hier klikken Tijdens deze werkperiode zal ik een blog bijhouden om mijn werkproces zichtbaar te maken: ingridsimonsinberlijn.blogspot.com