Focus of Prof. Dr. Horst Linker
2003 // Prof. Dr. Horst Linker
Katrin is a self-taught artist. Or were her teachers her experiences in life? The current art scene is teeming with autodidacts. But Katrin is refreshingly different from most of them, because she can really draw and paint. She knows how to use colour, shape, structure and materials. With her skills, she carries on this craft in all its artistry, never getting lost in trivia. She has the talent, and she puts it to good use. Or is it, perhaps, more a case of her painting stemming from...
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2011 // by Hans-Thomas Gosciniak
"The paintings of K.A.S. beyond any doubt, express the art and workmanship of a great artist who masters various and strange materials, amalgating them into new expressions of colours, surfaces, textures and shapes. At a first glace raising, then followed by admiration on a closer look her paintings suddenly startle, vex and challenge the viewer. They convey a feeling of awe and fear, touching uncertain but palpable spots deep inside. The trained mind might struggle ...
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2010 // by Robert Berry
"Good questions Katrin. This surely is a topic of interest for me, since I find Greenberg's "Avant-Gardde and Kitsch" one of the best essays written in the last 100 years. Greenberg separated creative processes into art and kitsch, which I agree with, but I would separate creative endeavors as art and craft. Art is the "fine art" end of the spectrum. Great concepts and ideas brought forth in through visual or literary aesthetics. "Art" needs thought being it, but...
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2010 // by Abraham Lubelski
"I hope that in the future we will indeed work together again, we are all very much fans of your work. You have managed to develop a cohesive body of work that is constantly pursuing the human figure in a number of different methods- you consistently explore the same aspects of the human condition. Through your themes and visual motifs of flora and fauna, dolls, and children along with the aesthetic techniques often exercised, including an atmospheric haze, surreal proportions, nonsensical...
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2010 // by Maureen Flynn
"Like Marlene Dumas, an older artist with whom she shares certain qualities in common, the German painter Katrin Alvarez depicts aspects of human and social relationships through figures that often take on a doll-like quality, in her exhibition at Agora Gallery, 53D West 25th Street, from June 3 through 24. (Reception Thursday, June 5, 6 to 8pm.)Many of the people that Alvarez paints seem to be somnambulists cut off somewhat self-protectively from their own benumbed emotions, as they traverse...
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