Anita Groener
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find out all that much about Dutch artist, Anita Groener but I like the way her work alternates between spareness and complexity.
Anita Groener: Labyrinth IX
Anita Groener - Freeway
These two works form part of the Crossing series. Over the space of three years Groener drove about 12,000 kilometers between The Netherlands (her homeland) and Ireland (her adopted country) and these regular road trips became a huge influence on her studio practice. She describes this series in the following way:
The verb Crossing signifies movement, a movement which is not uniform but which is drawn back and forth. In my drawings I try to capture the delineation of movements of thought processes occurring in space and time, between here and there, between the point of departure and arrival. The journey of the line marks the surface turning it into visual patterns. What you see is a physical manifestation of the layers of routes and directions taken in this process, revealing its manifold meanings.
You’re right: the balance between these opposite poles of complexity and simplicity is very appealing. Perhaps we always try to find some hidden order in complexity and random structures.
Posted by Joan M. Mas on October 15th, 2007 @ 2:39 pm