Monique Baumann

The works of Monique Baumann are complex and multifaceted; besides paintings they include collages, assemblages, photography and drawings. She shuns neither new techniques, nor material barriers, nor limits of form, so that her works take effect as tangible and accessible, but never empty. Baumann interweaves art modalities in all facets, even if the stylistic elements couldn’t be more different from each other. In this way, she ceaselessly creates outside the boundaries of pure representation and elusive abstraction, giving rise to fascinating transitional moments that generate new ways of seeing things. Thus fusing this illusionistic, expressionistic painting onto passive, almost meaningless photographic picture formats is a central element of her artistic work. Alien images and ideas determined from the outside confront one’s inner images and associations, setting an ever new challenge to the game of hunting the picture within the picture. Thus the presentation is a wide-ranging, almost unbounded palette of works that despite everything take effect as integral and autonomous.