Ingrid J. Kurnig has a preference for two forms of artistic expression. Oil
paintings and graphic art prints. The latter mainly because of their
diversity of technical possibilities.
The work processes of the two techniques are also distinct in their
duration. An oil painting takes time. The painter puts it away for a
while, returns to it, touches it up time and again, and very slowly the
painting will mature.
Graphic art is quite different. The prints come across light-footedly,
with spontaneity, playfulness, and cheeriness. As if there were no work
involved.
And yet the aim is joy. When that goal is reached, the whole
painstaking process of work drops off. What remains is the play with
language, the play with space and colour, the joy of reducing and
baffling. These works give the impression of suspended elegance, a
lightness of being that can be explained only by high density of
expression and clear intent. The titles of the works, totally
sophisticated and funny, reflect the joy of the productive process.
Translated from the article of
Dr. Isabella Ackerl, art historian
in: alpha 105 (Jan/Feb 2006) p. 16
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