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Fleet
2019
Anne NEUKAMP
Painting
170 x 230 cm
The painting Fleet is characteristicof Anne Neukamp’s reimagining of a concept redolent of pop art. On the lower part of a horizontal or “landscape” canvas is the painted representation of what appears to be three metal bars in a diagonal arrangement. These are topped by the same white shape (a paper plane?), also repeated three times, but at different scales. The title of the work contributes to the confusion: does it refer to a fleet... of ships?
The treatment, the multiplication, and the repurposing of its original meaning turn this image upside-down and undermine any symbolic interpretation. The coloured background, sometimes sky blue or treated as a palimpsest, is destabilised by diagonal steps. Somewhere between a brushstroke covering or simplifying a line and a trompe l’œil giving the impression of a collage, the sign fades away. And the painting emerges.
Anne Neukamp, a Franco-German artist born in Düsseldorf, is a graduate of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and now works and lives in Berlin. Her practice is essentially pictorial. Beginning nearly 15years ago, it uses a graphic language borrowed from logos and other visual elements gleaned from the Internet, the original design of which she buries under stratification that is both pictorial and semantic. This process of abstraction, strictly speaking – from the source image, even stylised – shiftsthe design, through multiple manipulations, rotations, colourisations, and soon, to a non-representational shape.
Anne Neukamp was in residence at the ISCP in New York (2015), and her work was notably displayed at the Prague (2011) and Lyon (2015) Biennales, the KW in Berlin, and the Kunstverein in Oldenburg in 2013.
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Anne NEUKAMP
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