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24. September 2023 Art news

ANNE NEUKAMP: Impossible Object

With "Anne Neukamp, Impossible Object", the Leopold Hoesch Museum is showing works by the painter Anne Neukamp (*1976 in Düsseldorf, lives and works in Berlin) for the first time in a comprehensive institutional solo exhibition. It was realized in close collaboration with the artist and presents primarily recent works created since 2019, as well as key works from the period before that.

In addition to paintings on canvas, a series of works on paper will be on display, which, as large formats, represent a new aspect of the artist's work. Some of the works were created especially for the exhibition in Düren and conceived for the space in the Leopold Hoesch Museum. It is serial elements that characterize Anne Neukamp's works. They seem to consist of simple analogies to components of everyday digital and analog life: Pictorial symbols, language abbreviations, shaped pieces. And yet they do not belong to a uniform visual conception of reality, but originate from different agreements on how reality is to be depicted. They are irritating both in their hermetic isolation and in the constellations in which they appear in the picture. They enter into an interaction with the pictorial space or the color surfaces that define it, which, however, cannot be conclusively resolved on closer inspection. On the contrary, they help visual paradoxes to take effect and use painterly means to take account of the potential of digital imagery. They thus exhibit numerous references to the art history of Western modernism, while at the same time following their very own pictorial concept and activating the possibilities of analog painting beyond logical pictorial composition.

Anne Neukamp, Circuit, 2020, Droege Art Collection

Anne Neukamp, Circuit, 2020, Droege Art Collection

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON DISPLAY FROM SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 TO JANUARY 14, 2024.

ANNE NEUKAMP – IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Hoeschplatz 1, 52349 Düren
Further Information: https://www.leopoldhoeschmuseum.de/de/ausstellungen/2023/anne-neukamp-impossible-object