Elisabeth Sonneck, In the Artist's Studio. Berlin, Germany
Elisabeth Sonneck’s painting and installation practice spans infinite forms, united by her rigorous commitment to the inherent potential of her materials and their relation to their environment. Her work is a dialogue between her everyday materials and situational elements of space, light, and audience.
Sonneck’s paper installations are a subtle manipulation of the material, guiding it into new and unique forms while allowing its weight, texture, and material tension to behave in organic ways. Far from passive, these works are in a state of static dynamism. Upon her paper and canvas surfaces, Sonneck conducts complex coloristic experiments that underscore the concept of color as an unstable state. Nuanced color relations play out in a rhythmic repetition created by Sonneck’s consciously reduced painterly gestures.
