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EVA WEYMANN
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Eva Weymann

OPENING: 02.02.2005, 6pm
03.02.-19.03.2005

Eva Weymann´s images focus on ordinary, everyday objects. She arranges apartments as film sets and photographs them after the shoots. Segments of these photographs are the basis of her large-format paintings, which show typical details of German home decor – cropped and blown-up. Various artistic processes contribute to the creation of these works from installation (i.e. set design), to photography and finally the painted image – a synonym for a familiar world. Staged scenarios become depictions of reality.

The interior of an elderly person's house is a very common motif, but here everything has been carefully arranged according to the vision of the artist. A generation's decorative taste is evoked through heavy, dark wooden furniture, furnishings and decorative elements from the 1960s and 1970s and even patterned wallpaper. The arrangements function as a stage set and serve as the actual subject of the artist's paintings.

By showing the room in close-up the artist reveals only a few details, but these elements manage to convey the atmosphere and larger environment of the rooms in striking manner. As if peering through a door that is slightly ajar, the viewer is given a voyeuristic look into the private sphere of an unknown person – much like the view through a movie camera.

Eva Weymann also uses photographs that she finds at flea markets. From old family albums to postcards and press photos from magazines, the images show the private life of various individuals. Here too the photographs are enlarged, as if the artist wanted to dissect the world of the German bourgeoisie through the microscopic view of her canvases.

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