Ingrid Weber, "Schiefer (Slate)"


nov. 4 - dec. 16, 2006
taguchi fine art, ltd.


















































Born in Obermaubach/ Eifel, Germany in 1961, Ingrid Weber now resides in Duesseldorf. She got the Meisterschuerin from Jan Dibbets at the Art Academy in Duesseldorf in 1999 and worked as assistant of Dibbets for few years. Received a scholarship from Ernst Poensgen Foundation and stayed in New York in 2000.
She participated in the group show at Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo, "Yellow - Power of the Earth and Light from the Air" in July, 2004 and worked under the Open Studio Program at Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo from October through November, 2004.


microscopic finest pigment particles - Farbmittel

Ingrid Weber has been consistently creating monochrome painting which is constructed with a single color pigment or a few limited number of different color pigments.
Before she paints, as a preparatory process, she carefully compounds some different colors of pigments. By changing the proportion of each pigment to mix, Weber makes some new color pigments that have slightly different "color-value" from each other. For instance, she makes many different kind of green color pigments, changing the portion of yellow color pigment or blue color pigment, or changing quantities or type of bind materials. Then she chooses some slightly different color-value pigments and paints them on canvases respectively.


expression of light

As science explains color as the difference of the index of refraction of light, the expression of color is the matter of the conveyance of one's sensation of light to others. Only with light, we can perceive the difference of colors. This is very true in case of the colors of the pigments that Weber deals with great care.
Therefore, the color she creates by herself essentially contains the light with which and in which she has painted the painting. Of course she works in natural light and very sensitive to the difference of light - the light of her studio in Duesseldorf, the light of her studio in New York, the light in the Plaza in Vienna, all light is different. It must be these peculiar lights she experienced in certain place and at certain time, that Ingrid Weber tries to present through "Farbmittel".
No lights are the same, and thus no colors are the same. They are changing every moment. Everyday is different from the day before, being irreplaceable.
Ingrid Weber, facing to canvas in her studio, always gets rid of all her prejudice. She mixes pigments and creates new colors with fresh innocent feeling. While putting pigments on canvas layer and layer with painting knife, new unevenness, shadows and new light, new colors come into being on the surface of the canvas.


This installation, which is her third one person show at taguchi fine art, ltd., consists of only gray paintings with "Schiefer" (Slate) pigment. Gray is the color which she regards as the standard and thus important color.




checklist of the installation


1.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2006
oil, pigment on canvas
27 x 26 cm

2.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2006
oil, pigment on canvas
27 x 26 cm

3.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2006
oil, pigment on canvas
60 x 60 cm

4.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2002
oil, pigment on canvas
85 x 75 cm

5.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2002
oil, pigment on canvas
37 x 37 cm

6.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2002
oil, pigment on canvas
37 x 37 cm

7.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2006
oil, pigment on canvas
110 x 105 cm

8.
Untitled (Schiefer), 2006
oil, pigment on canvas
60 x 60 cm