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Ingrid Weber, "Terra Verde"August 30 - September 27, 2014 taguchi fine art, tokyo |
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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 several 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. 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. On this occasion, paintings with pigment called ÓTerra VerdeÓ will be on view as main pieces. This pigment is mainly made of minerals and used since antiquity. Medieval Italian painters used this pigment for flesh undertones. This underpainting of green neutralized the effect of the pinks and reds of the flesh colors. In addition to paintings on canvas, installed are her new experimental works, which are paintings with pigment, tempera and lacquer on wooden panel. checklist of the installation 1. Untitled (cadmium orange no.0.5 light), 2004 oil, pigment on canvas 60.5 x 60.5 cm 2. Untitled (vagone green earth, ultramarine blue greenish light, cadmium yellow), 2010 oil, pigment on canvas 110 x 105 cm 3. Untitled (cadmium orange no.0 very light), 2005 oil, pigment on canvas 27 x 26 cm 4. Untitled (vagone green earth, ultramarine blue greenish light), 2010 oil, pigment on canvas 150 x 145 cm 5. Untitled (vagone green earth, ultramarine blue greenish light), 2014 oil, pigment on canvas 45 x 45 cm 6. Untitled (vagone green earth, ultramarine blue greenish light), 2014 oil, pigment on canvas 45 x 45 cm 7. Untitled (alizarin violet), 2014 oil, pigment and lacquer on wood 110 x 105 cm 8. Untitled (alizarin violet), 2010 oil, pigment on canvas 60 x 60 cm |