Simone Haack
Simone Haack
| Contact | Aylin Kowalewsky |
|---|---|
| Year | 2022-23 |
| Edition | 4 unique works |
| Technique | Oil on canvas |
| Image Size | 40 x 30 cm / 30 x 30 cm ("Kranz", 2023) |
| Price | € 2.100 / € 1.900 ("Kranz", 2023) (incl. 19% VAT) |
Hair is a recurring motif in Simone Haack’s (b. Rotenburg/Wümme, 1978; lives and works in Berlin) work. Open long hair is associated with femininity and eroticism; pinned-up or braided hHair is a recurring motif in Simone Haack’s (b. Rotenburg/Wümme, 1978; lives and works in Berlin) work. Open long hair is associated with femininity and eroticism; pinned-up or braided hair signals sophistication, but also constraint. What Haack paints are not tangible hairdos but surrealist hair landscapes in the style of a new magical realism.air signals sophistication, but also constraint. What Haack paints are not tangible hairdos but surrealist hair landscapes in the style of a new magical realism.
Books on Simone Haack
- Release December 2024
Simone Haack – Untangling the Strands / Démêler les Fils
24€ Add to cartSimone Haack’s (b. Rotenburg/Wümme, 1978; lives in Berlin) most recent body of work delves into the theme of hair as a parameter of identity straddling the division between nature and culture. Her second publication with DCV is released on occasion of two exhibitions: Untangling the Strands at Berlin’s Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik, a collection of casts of ancient sculpture, which are seen in dialogue with her hair pictures; and Helix of Realism at Galerie Droste, Paris, which is part of the official program of events around the grand Surrealism exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou in celebration of the Surrealist Manifesto’s centennial. The new book is the first to shed light on the aspect of the surreal in the artist’s oeuvre and uncovers a major source of her visual inspiration: the dream diaries that Haack has kept since she was seventeen and the interest in the unconscious they reflect. It is above all the logic of the dream as well as feelings and moods that inform her paintings.
Haack: “My goal is to use the means of realism to visualize what cannot be seen. To get into an automatism that lets the unconscious speak in order to infuse the pictures with a life of their own. To shed light on the domain where the myths originate.”
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Simone Haack
HAIR30€ Add to cartSimone Haack (b. 1978 in Rotenburg/Wümme, lives and works in Berlin) has always made the inwards legible in the outer appearance of her figures in her painting. This is also the case in her block of works in the exhibition of the same name, Hair. Already in the late 17th century, magic and superstition were attributed to hair. In it one suspected the whole power of the soul. The artist, who was formed in the painting class of Katharina Grosse and Karin Kneffel, symbolically reveals the fragility of the DNA of human beings through her hair landscapes, which are sometimes placed macroscopically in the picture in the spirit of a New Magic Realism. At the same time, her accompanying exhibition publication always also tells of the triangle of tension of physical as well as psychological existence, which in her case runs through the painterly psychoanalysis.
