Katrin Alvarez
www.katrin-alvarez.de
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Surrealismus
Statement:
I see myself as a journalist, describing life in colors instead of words. Both, the owerwhelming beauty of existence and it's cruel darksides - the whole range of beingness.
More and more I feel fascinated by the fusion of the new virtual dimensions and the good old reality. The huge influence of the cyberworld on each and every area of our thoughts and our feelings. The immense amount of unfiltrated intellectual "feed" which we all consume. Yet we do not know if the homo sapiens will change over to a desolate data set or if he will develop a new universe of unlimited possibilities.
I try to put my reflections about this subject into my paintings.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Katrin Alvarez was born in Güstrow (Mecklenburg). She is a studied lawyer, spent two years as a volonteer journalist and published satirical poems and a novel.
Later on she worked as a lab assistant in several veterinary practices.
But painting remained the basic impulse of her life:
The powerful freedom to create her own universes.
Alvarez exhibited in Israel, Switzerland, Canada, France, Italy, Austria and in the United States. Most recently her artwork was exposed in two solo-shows in Rome (Italy) and in Vienna (Austria).
One of Alvarez's paintings was chosen to hang in the „Phantasten Museum“in Vienna. It is located in the famous Palais Palffy.
„Katrin Alvarez's paintings do not try to explain, educate or teach, “German psychiatrist Dr.Gosciniak stated in an essay, “neither do they carry a mission. They do however embed themselves deeply in anyone who gets attracted to them. They are like a stone cast into a lake. The ripples felt by the individual may expand the horizon of feelings and dreams, clearing memories from debris, thus opening a new way to find one's deeper and inner self.“
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Solo Shows(Selected)
1972 Galerie Glaub III,Köln,Germany
1977 Galerie Kunst und Psyche,Köln,Germany
1978 Galerie Kunst und Psyche,Köln,Germany
1981 Galerie Kunst und Psyche,Köln,Germany
2004 Die Kleine Weltlaterne,Berlin,Germany
2010 Galleria Tondinelli,Rom,Italy
2010 Palais Palffy,Wien,Austria
Group Shows (Selected)
1968 Jahresausstellung Kölner Künstler,Köln, Germany
1978 Art Basel,Switzerland
1978 Sara Kishon Gallery,Tel Aviv,Israel
1980 Mühlengalerie(R.B.Kunze),Gütersloh, Germany
1983 Roßbach's Bilderhaus,Ahlen,German
2004 Agora Gallery,New York,USA
2005/6 Agora Gallery,New York,USA
2007 Painting on the Edge-Intern.Competition, Vancouver,Canada.The painting “Exorcism” was selected for the Allan Edwards Award
2008
Agora Gallery,New York,USA
2009
Ico Gallery,New York,USA
HanseArt Bremen,Bremen,Germany
Florence Biennale 2009,Florence,Italy
2010
George Segal Gallery,Montclair,USA Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas,USA
Broadway Gallery,New York,USA The painting “Borderline” was selected
for the “Phantasten Museum” in Vienna.
2011
Artexpo New York,USA
Atelier Z,Paris,France
Icosahedron Gallery,New York,USA
Museum Castello Estense,Ferrara,Italy
La Galleria Pall Mall,London,UK
The Gallery in Redchurch Street,London,UK
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