January 31 - March 13, 2021
117 rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris
In my artistic work I investigate the phenomenon of time and space, the relationship between perception and actuality,reality and image. My direct inspiration for this is nature. My work is based on the experience and the examination of the essence of nature. I relate natural transformation processes, the underlying force measurement and energy that determine the final appearance, in relation to my own perception, my thoughts and actions, my human actions. Human being as part of nature. Analyzing these processes and reacting to them is a constant source of inspiration for me. Philosophy, poetry and mythology play an important role in this.
The work of Judith Maria Kleintjes develops in space without dealing with a center. Visible, in building her gestures, she released herself from the stylistic task wich is determined by a simply homogeneous matrix.
Rather, it seems that the works are like the different episodes of a poetic narrative. These a-rhythmic fragments originated from widely scattered emotions and in distant places are, on the occasion of an exhibition – distributed in space – reunited under one roof. They always tell something and avoid a standardized formal presence.
When Judith, who has refined her language in recent years, the motives of her competence with her so unique sensitivity and her feminine handwriting deepens, – secured with strong ropes to the wooden table, where they come to light every day published manifestations and achieved or destroyed (although always sufficiently visible and concrete leaves traces) – continues to expand, she will have a blossoming landscape in front of her.
There, she can cultivate the different various botanical essences that, in the space of the field – a magical territory – will find their connection and can form a poetic narrative, which has its roots in European painting.
Research and description of my work process.
In my artistic work I investigate the phenomenon of time and space, the relationship between perception and actuality,reality and image. My direct inspiration for this is nature. My work is based on the experience and the examination of the essence of nature. I relate natural transformation processes, the underlying force measurement and energy that determine the final appearance, in relation to my own perception, my thoughts and actions, my human actions. Human being as part of nature. Analyzing these processes and reacting to them is a constant source of inspiration for me. Philosophy, poetry and mythology play an important role in this.
When developing new projects, I always look to see which medium best suits to the concept and content, a work-in-progress, where the unexpected of a particular medium is often preferred, is an important part of my work and idea. There is always a change, whether mutation or mutilation, at the most vulnerable point, where nature or a body shape is most suitable or where resistance is least. Changes do not appear as a sudden interruption but as gradual shifts where the core remains unchanged, such as the landscape in the changing of the seasons.
The project ‘Fragments of Time’ (European Ceramic Work Center, the Netherlands – Artist in Residence 2017) arose from my fascination for the elusive phenomenon of time and light, the enormous shadow drawing that becomes visible on earth with shadows every day and then disappears again. This sundial – time indication, first captured with ink and pencil, later with liquid porcelain, observed and drawn ‘en plein air’.
Capturing processes of the ephemeral: time, light and shadow, this through clay or porcelain, which itself consists of humus. Plants disappear, light and time too, fired clay and porcelain do not. What remains and is found in archeology are everyday objects, now there are fragments of time and shadows made of porcelain too.
The installation in the Museum Insel Hombroich, Germany (Artist in Residence 2012) shows a spatial three-dimensional drawing of branches. Made in a sea container tunnel (4 parts in a row, 50 meters long and buried underground), by wedging in trimmed willow branches from the museum’s property in the tunnel. The space was divided into dense, confusing and almost impassable parts and parts that can be entered transparently as a drawing.
Past Exhibition
Ombres blanches
January 31 - March 13, 2021
117 rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris
