Solweig de Barry. Zwischen Dicht Und Dünn: Cat. Kunstverein Heilbronn

One of the distinctive qualities of Solweig de Barry’s painting is the balance between suggestion and formulation, conceptual distance and intuition, between representation and abstraction. The exhibition at the Kunstverein Heilbronn is the first extensive presentation of her work in an institution to date and includes works on canvas and a glass painting on the large window front of the Kunstverein. There are impressive examples over the centuries, such as the cathedrals of Chartres or Amiens, the Notre Dame du Ronchamp chapel by Le Corbusier or the stained glass windows by contemporary artists such as Gerhard Richter in Tholey or, more recently, Olafur Eliasson in Greifswald, to name but a few. What they all have in common, however, is that color and glass are firmly connected through the technical process of production. Solweig de Barry sought to find a way to realize this painting on glass panes in situ with paint that has the same translucent quality as classic glass art, because most commercially available paints applied to glass panes actually cast a grey or black shadow on the floor.

(*1963) is an artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others about Georg Baselitz, Martin Creed, Gü nther Fö rg, Georg Herold, Markus Lü pertz, Olaf Metzel, Anselm Reyle, Michael Schmidt, Michael Venezia, Silke Wagner. In Cologne at the late 1980s she was an assistant to Donald Judd and gained her doctorate on Dan Flavin. (*1987 in Strasbourg, lives and works in Berlin) is a German-French artist who grew up in Strasbourg and studied at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2008 to 2014 as a master student of Robert Lucander. In 2011, she studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She was a scholarship holder of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, the Dorothea-Konwiarz Stiftung Berlin and the Goldrausch Kü nstlerinnenprojekt. The motifs for Solweig des Barry’s paintings are taken from her photo archive of self-taken everyday images. (*1963) is an artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others about Georg Baselitz, Martin Creed, Gü nther Fö rg, Georg Herold, Markus Lü pertz, Olaf Metzel, Anselm Reyle, Michael Schmidt, Michael Venezia, Silke Wagner. In Cologne at the late 1980s she was an assistant to Donald Judd and gained her doctorate on Dan Flavin.