Kim bartelt
The raw linen and jute canvases from Bartelt’s latest series, Raw, provide backdrops for investigations of form, which manifest in abstract shapes composed of found and residual tissue papers the artist saves from everyday occasions, such as the purchase of flowers or wrapping from a Paris concept store. Minimal yet imbued with a quiet energy, Bartelt’s paper paintings transmit the meditative quality of her painstaking process of pasting and embedding. The idiosyncrasies of each sheet of tissue—creases, folds, a raw edge here or there—allude to their past applications. Only up close does their layered fragility reveal itself.
Kim Bartelt does not paint surfaces—she paints with surfaces. Bartelt’s decision to abandon liquid paint in favour of two-dimensional elements could be interpreted as an investigation of painting as an object. But it goes further than that. Her works carry a predetermined aspect over which she has no control—the paper cuttings of each piece are in fact a residue; a remainder. The Berlin- based artist completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York, and has since regularly exhibited in group and solo shows in Chicago, Berlin, Paris, and London. In 2019, Bartelt was artist in residence at Numeroventi in Florence, Italy and at Joya in Almeria, Spain. Her work is held in private collections across Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, UK, Israel, India, Brazil and the USA.
Anna Dorothea Ker
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July 2020 / New collection of artworks launched - please contact the gallery for full details.
