Dorothea Goldschmidt

Exhibition 22 October - 26 December 2011

Dorothea Goldschmidt (studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg with Franz Erhard Walther and Stanley Brouwn) conquers the rooms of the Kunstverein with the seductive power of sweet-looking kitsch paintings. Under the title "Sweetheart" she spreads out her "cosmos" of small and large-format drawings and colored paper cuts. She finds her motifs in artificial worlds in which seduction, longing and disappointment meet. Her pictures come from toy shops, department stores and fairs.
Dorothea Goldschmidt draws with ink marker and pencil on paper, she collages, cuts out and installs rooms. Her paper cuts are also created from the drawing, based on images. In addition to pencil or felt-tip pen, she works with a paper knife. In this way, she creates empty spaces that reveal what lies beneath them or create a fragile pattern.
In the free play of different means she gives free rein to the circulation of desire. The power of the role models that help shape identity today also becomes visible.
In her exhibition Dorothea Goldschmidt expands her concept of appropriating popular images and stereotypes. She combines different sheet formats and silhouettes to create gaudy all-over wall installations. Comic figures, cupcakes, dolls, pieces of jewellery, lollipops and advertising slogans become wall-filling ornaments and amaze on closer inspection. In her series "Barbies" she mounts enlarged and heavily overdrawn doll faces on room-high silhouettes of daffodils, which she paints directly on the wall.
Goldschmidt examines the content of pop icons and peels out typified details. In this way, the sweet girl world appears as a sticky cocoon from which to free itself, and the popular idols appear as hollow forms that are nothing more than pure ornament.

Annual Edition 2011 by Dorothea Goldschmidt O.T., drawing, 2007 / 08
Pencil on paper, 59,4 x 42cm. unique copy, price: 750€ (unframed) / see also picture below

Matinée on Sunday, 27.11.2011, at 11.30 a.m.
Reinhard Prüllage reads a text collage from young girls' books of the 20th century from Nesthäkchen to Wilde Hühnern, mixed with excerpts from beat and rock songs.

The exhibition is supported by the city of Neuenhaus
and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture

In our "Parallel" program line, which has been in existence since 2005, we showed
from 12 October to 13 November the exhibition
 'Parallel 18' - Petra Hel-Börger - Homage to Karl Prantl's "Way of the Cross"

21.11.2011: The linden grove around the work of Karl Prantl has been restored.