The multi-layered acrylic paintings on glass by German artist Cornelia Renz, colorful and fancy at a first glance, reveals all their allegoric references and ambiguous meanings once looked closer.
Her works presents an opulent composition of visual elements: naked bodies, mythological figures, animals and skeletons, vibrant floral and ornamental patterns, geometrical constructions and text. All this elements are combined in an absurd, disturbing and dream-like atmosphere.
Cornelia Renz meticulously builds each work as a unique art-object. She paints on two separate surfaces, a front one of transparent acrylic and a back one that is either white acrylic or white polyurethane foam. The final effect is three-dimensional: part drawing, part painting part sculptural box.
Cornelia Renz studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, and she was master student in the Class of Prof. Sighard Gille. She lives and works in Berlin. Her work has been shown in the Berlinische Galerie (Berlin, Germany), Goff+Rosenthal (New York, USA), and He Xianing Galerie (Shenzhen, China). She was included in the book, Berlin Art Now, written by Mark Gisbourne and published by Thames and Hudson.
Tier in mir, 2009. Courtesy of Cornelia Renz
Self feed by little death, 2008. Courtesy of Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Body of evidence, 2010. Courtesy of Cornelia Renz
DIE, 2011. Courtesy of Cornelia Renz
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