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DATES: October 5- 30, 2004 RECEPTION: Saturday, October 9, 5- 8PM |
ADDRESS: 511 West 25 Street, Suite 605, NYC HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 PM |
Artist Statement
A native of the Netherlands, ( Amsterdam) Ms. Tammes holds a Master's degree in fine arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam, where she studied painting, drawing, graphics and art history. Following her formal training, she undertook extensive travels to countries as widespread as Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Japan, China, South and Central America,and her exposure to varied and unfamiliar cultures is reflected in both the technique and the content of her work.
eleonora Tammes has exhibited her artwork in galleries throughout the Netherlands, Switzerland, England and the U.S.A.
The works on paper by eleonora tammes are non-figurative.
A rhythmic build-up, the suggestion of change, organic processes,
form repetitions and structures dominate the compositions.
Central is the combination of shapes and line patterns, color
shades and movement. Close study of her work reveals a
fascination with form and proportion. As if, for her, painting is
a matter and manner of research into the ways elements of form
relate and interact with each other. Her intention is to discover
and employ the interplays of light, shape, color and structure.
Not as a goal in itself, but to achieve and express deeper under-
standing of what matters in our own existence.
eleonora tammes interprets and renders the intrinsic of reality through a way of working that enables her to link distance to intensity and repetition to dynamics and evolution. Combining painting (acrylics) and drawing (paintmarker), she generates
her compositions by (ir)regular repetition of a basic motif. Such a 'buiding stone' ,
often with an abstract organic signature, is stacked,± hung, or otherwise arranged to become (part of) a condition, atmosphere, function, tissue, space, organism,.... . Consequently, many of her paintings have a ceramic, sculptural or even architectonic overtone. eleonora tammes: who is operating in the gap between the abstract and the figurative, evokes a response from a deep level of consciousness with her stark, powerful imagery. She is an explorer of the interwoven patterns of earth, space and time. Employing a subdued palette of muted earth colors, she employs subtly suggestive forms which convey a sense of primitive archetype without ever formally establishing themselves, leaving the viewer free to indentify the primordial shapes independently. At once pure abstraction and provocative allusion, her motifs seem to draw both the prehistoric and the conceptual for their sources.Tammes charts the inner process of the journey through the physical into the metaphysical. |
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