Astrid Esslinger

Lives and works in Linz, AT

Artist statement

My paintings circulate formally between abstraction and figuration, process and object, consolidation and reduction, as well as between the visible and the non-visible. Beginning with the formal gesture of the concrete brush- stroke, I create portraits and scenes that, in different contexts, accommodate the narrative. The abstraction of painting, which experienced its most consistent realization with the suprematist “Black Square on a White Background” (1915) by Kazimir Malevich, is my point of departure in representing the figurative in my painting. I paint with acrylic on canvas, usually working on several canvases at the same time.

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