29. 09 - 2. 10. 2022

Location: JUPITER - Mönckebergstr. 2 - 4 / 20095 Hamburg

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This year, Galerie Martin Mertens is for the first time at Paper Positions Hamburg and is happy to show works by the artist Bettina Krieg.

Bettina Krieg's line drawings evoke many associations. One can think of extremely enlarged hair bundles or waves. In any case, it's all about movement and rhythm. From a technical point of view, the sheets, which can be up to 2 meters in size, are particularly astonishing when you realize that the artist only draws freehand. She doesn't use templates, but sets line by line in a meditative process and lets the wave structures grow associatively over long periods of time. Julia Voss compares the structures in the text for the "Stream" catalog with sound waves and this comparison is probably very accurate, because Bettina says that a picture is finished when it "sounds right" to her. The condensed drawings seem to move optically and are thus reminiscent of Op Art works from the 1960s.