Claudia Desgranges - Dissolve 2009
Adolfstrasse 63, 53111 Bonn
art and living #4
In 2009, the project took place in the MIWO residential complex "Fade" the Cologne painter Claudia Desgranges instead of. In film technology, the term "crossfade" refers to the "soft" transition of two consecutive film parts into one another in comparison to the hard cut. The artist, who is primarily known for her position on free color painting, uses the term in a figurative sense.
Observations from the surrounding area are questioned for their (color) painterly qualities and artistically combined and commented on with different media. In this respect, the situations encountered are not faded out “hard”, but faded over “softly”.
The project started on September 2, 2009 with an evening projection on the gable wall of the apartment building at Irmintrudisstraße 10 in Bonn-Castell. In an endless loop, the artist superimposed filmic and acoustic sequences from urban contexts with photographs of her color painting.
Related to this action showed Claudia Desgranges on October 29, 2009 at the same address, a painterly installation outside the residential complex on the garage forecourt.
In addition, she creates an extension of the previous situation with an in-situ painting on the end panel of the garage roof, a "crossfade" that helps the traditional impression to attract new attention.
On November 24, 2009, another situation was presented in Bonn's old town at Adolfstrasse 63. The continuous vertical glazing of the stairwell structures the façade here. With clear painterly settings on the glass Claudia Desgranges this architectural jewel temporarily out of everyday being overlooked. In keeping with the project title and your initial projection, the interior lighting scatters color and light into the darkness in the evening hours. There is a transition from the house into the urban space, color "flows" to the outside.
Claudia Desgranges (born November 17, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main) lives and works in Cologne and Munich. She studied painting at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf.
The works are represented by the catalogue "Claudia Desgranges - Dissolve" documented.
