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René Holm

by Karina Chernenko
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783969121900
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: DCV
  • Publisher Imprint: DCV
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: USD 50.99
  • Language: German
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1298 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Artists / Monographs

René Holm goes for the big picture, painting the ambivalence of human existence and our relationship with nature. Some of his protagonists are physically naked, and all embody an interior life through their poses. The faceless figures function as screens onto which the beholders can project their own feelings, as symbols of universal human experiences. That is why, Holm notes, people very often recognize themselves in his protagonists. The effect is in part due to the forest, the setting of all pictures in this catalogue, which has been Holm's studio and preferred backdrop for decades. It is where he finds the twilight that glows in all of our souls: woodlands nourish and menace us, they are home to helpful fairies and nasty demons, one can find life and death alike in them. He translates the sublime of the forest-- a central motif in the Romantics-- into a contemporary visual idiom. In his pursuit of this endeavor, he has recently ventured a radical aesthetic change: instead of using thick paints as before, he now applies the pigments to the canvas in thinner and drier layers.

Karina Chernenko studied art history and comparative cultural and religious studies at the University of Marburg. She began her professional career as a freelance art historian and art educator for museums and galleries. In 2019, together with her mother, the art historian Anjelika Spö th, she founded the platform KUNST + kaviar, which is dedicated to democratized art education.

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