Martina Büttner:
More paintings from 2002 to 2006
Gooses, oil on canvas, 100 x 185 cm, 2002
private collection, Paris
private collection, Paris
And the winner is …, oil on canvas, 185 x 140 cm, 2005
Busy walk, oil on canvas, 165 x 150 cm, 2006
About Paintings from 2002 to 2006
(…) but we said: no before, no after, no theater, no drama. Rather concerned by the instant, by each being in its place, by its relation or the refusal of a relation to the other. (…) Martina Büttner‘s brushstroke does not embellish these games, it does not render an indecent fragility and especiialy not a tender look that could be given. Since it is a matter of showing a psychological process, the technique of painting is neutral, its asperities, its colors laid without burr, just the nervousness of a consequent effort. The intention of the before, of the after is up to us (…)
Philippe Poulain
Date
2002 – 2006