Birte Horn

Kunstwerken

stück_66, 2021

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: oil on canvas cut,
Afmeting: 90 x 80 cm
 

stück_57, 2020

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: oil on canvas cut,
Afmeting: 70 x 70 cm
 

standout_6, 2021

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: oil on canvas cut,
Afmeting: 60 x 60 cm
 

papercut_18, 2019

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: Letraset cut
Afmeting: 117 x 184 cm
 

papercut_3

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: box cut
Afmeting: 22 x 19 cm
 

konstrukt_12, 2019

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: oil on cardboard on stretcher
Afmeting: 38 x 39 cm
 

papercut_17, 2019

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: coloursample cut
Afmeting: 17 x 12 cm
 

konstrukt_4, 2019

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: oil on cardboard on stretcher
Afmeting: 37 x 35 cm
 

standout_2, standout_4

Techniek: Schilderijen
Materiaal: colourfonds
Afmeting: 120 x 220 cm
 

Birte Horn

I perceive the things I represent, everything is actually already there. It’s just that reality is so fast and changeable that I find it impossible to hold on to a holistic perception of reality. So, in my work, I focus on the principle of deconstruction and construction.

When I reflect, this principle is much more comprehensive for me and not only immanent to the work.

I extract, fragment and assemble – in thought, with the eyes, the hands, language. We could talk about theories of perception at this point. There are no self-contained systems in reality, there are only parts and composite partial realities, and these are neither universally valid nor stable.

When I describe how I work, my artistic action comes closest to thinking. The thoughts and images in my head are free to move in all directions, they shove themselves over each other and thus constantly link up to form new ideas. That means a great deal of freedom. I play with parts of reality. Thus, my work is characterised by a complex combinatorics of very different views of space as well as layers of space in the past years as a whole.

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