janinebeangallery present

„Feuer“ Öl auf Leinwand 220 x 150 cm 2010, ursprünglich hochgeladen von janinebeangallery

Tanja Selzer - Gib mir dein Rot (Give Me Your Red)

Opening reception: September 3rd, 6 - 9 pm
at 9 pm
"wenn der Wind voller Weltraum" ("if the wind is full of infinity") for flute and computergenerated sounds
world premiere of this new piece live performed by Kornelia Timm
composer: Stefan Lischewski

The janinebeangallery present new works by Tanja Selzer from September 4th to October 16th 2010.

Tanja Selzer draws her motifs from the daily media-related flood of images as components of human seceneries, figures in wild natural spectacles or single persons and animals infront of or inside a natural background. She changes these images by composition, shift of colour and an ease of paint application, so they appear in the guise of a pretended, mostly idyllic scene.

In the works of the exhibition „Gib mir dein Rot“ („Give me your red“) Selzer additionally emphasizes the dynamics of her nature-bound protagonists and spectacles to the point of fight-like confrontations and compositions. The idyllic backgrounds remain perceptible as bearings for the image as a whole but are not only contrasted by the drastic actions in the foreground but also are stirred up and involved into it. The alternating depiction of humans and animals or also their interactions are an expression of their mirror-symmetric anima. Selzer stages this without psychologic abstractions but with the genuine intensity of a direct line to the source of fables and tempers.

The title „Gib mir dein Rot“ is like the sources of motifs for Tanja Selzer a citation, taken from the daily media stream. The demanded red is meant here alongside all associative potential as an immediate entity and force of color.