Inga de Martin. Germany
  

 

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1.Queuing, 2007 C-print 91x137 cm, euro 2,500      2.Untitled, 2007 C-print 150x150 cm, euro 3,000       3.Untitled, 2007 C-print 150x150 cm, euro 3,000       4.Lamp & Breads, 2006 C-print 91x137 cm. euro 2,500     5.Madonna, 2006 C-print 119x86 cm. euro 2,500   6.Queuing, 2007 C-print 91x137 cm, euro 2,500      7.Untitled, 2007 C-print 150x150 cm, euro 3,000       8.Untitled, 2007 C-print 150x150 cm, euro 3,000       9.Lamp & Breads, 2006 C-print 91x137 cm. euro 2,500     10.Madonna, 2006 C-print 119x86 cm. euro 2,500

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Inga de Martin is painting experiences in which the observer needs to read into. Objects transform into Gestalt and disappear at the same time. Though they have found existence on the canvas surface, sometimes upright, sometimes twisted, or isolated, moving through space they almost dissolve back into it. Shoal of lines and daubs take up space. Motives seem arbitrary, only to dissolve again. Transformations disappear into unclarity. The experience remains intangible. I am painting to answer myself questions that my life is asking me. I assume the existence of a meaning of life that can flourish and thrive. Life presents itself incomplete and suggestive to me. It is based on feelings that encourage a permanent reflection of one owns activity and the reaction of others. My work allows dialogue with myself and others in order to confirm experiences, intensions and fantasies or just surprises. I conceptualize a painting and during its execution it develops into something different. I don't feel any doubt about this process and even include the unexpected as a necessity because my paintings develop out of this unpredictable illusion. Each work creates a space on a canvas which ideally develops into movements that the observers eye can follow as if in his floating consciousness.

Education
2003
passed with distinction/Diploma, Fashion Design / Painting
University of applied science, Hamburg, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Inizio Inga de Martin
Galerie Gegenwart Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Selected Awards and Grants
2009
"Elysee Artprize" for best painting in the northern Germany
Elysee Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2001
"Wildbahn" art prize for best Painting, Germany
Apollinaris, Bonn, Germany