Katharina Arndt
Katharina Arndt – Julia
| Contact | Aylin Kowalewsky |
|---|---|
| Year | 2024 |
| Edition | 3 unique works |
| Technique | Acrylic on paper |
| Image Size | each 42 x 29.7 cm |
| Price | each € 790,00 (incl. 7% VAT) |
| Details | Three special editions, A3 incl. box + edition + signed copy of the monograph "While Waiting For Death" |
Katharina Arndt is one of the subtlest chroniclers of the Instagram selfie generation. In paintings set apart by a brilliant naïveté, she captures the lifestyle of a jeunesse dorée who recharge while sunbathing on the beaches of Barcelona or the Côte d’Azur, preparing for the next night of partying—or recovering from the last. To mark the release of her first monograph with DCV, she has reprised motifs from her iconic Julia series in acrylic on paper. These tongue-in-cheek pieces recording the energy, joys, and contradictions of modern beach life in snapshots are now available from DCV Books as strictly limited Collector’s Editions, complete with a book and in boxes hand-painted by the artist.
BOOKS ON KATHARINA ARNDT
-
Katharina Arndt
While waiting for Death38€ Add to cartLife for the most part consists of banalities. What to make of it? Katharina Arndt has decided to dip thick brushes into luminous bold acrylic paints, which she applies expansively without regard for the ostensible gray areas of life. Every stroke is valid, there’s no remorse or trepidation, everything is foreground, all elements of a picture are equipollent. The people in Arndt’s paintings from 2022–23 gathered in this catalog are simply there, for the moment, gaping into their cell phones, stuffing themselves with burgers. Nothing more. That makes her works distorted depictions of our hedonistic society with its craving for sensuality, even as we always have one eye riveted on the virtual. The harder, then, to face up to physical reality; with all photo filters off, its imperfections are unmistakable. And so, although we clearly delight in these gaudy colors, the pictures contain intimations of melancholy and death, too. Knowing that the hour of farewell is near, Arndt’s figures stimulate their senses. They kill time down to the very end with jarring trivia, agitated Sisyphuses wallowing in their glittering inadequacy.