Gerda Schütte

For almost 20 years Gerda Schütte has created a whole cosmos of light drawings, memorable works of art, mostly unique.
What is new is that the current works have a pronounced recognizable physicality, radiate a great tenderness, her earlier photograms were very reduced abstract signs, which also at times work with the archetype of all geometries, the radical basic form of the circle (cf. her "Sphères"). But also there it is essential that - although reduced and abstract - the photograms or artist's hand prints have a sensitive aura, which is achieved by the differentiated tonality of the gray values. They are ensouled!
Drawing or painting with the light.

It is advisable to frame the artwork in custom-made frames with UV-museum glass. On view is a common frame from an art supply store.


Germany

Berlin

Semjon Contemporary

Photography

Untitled (from the series »Branches«)

For almost 20 years Gerda Schütte has created a whole cosmos of light drawings, memorable works of art, mostly unique.
What is new is that the current works have a pronounced recognizable physicality, radiate a great tenderness, her earlier photograms were very reduced abstract signs, which also at times work with the archetype of all geometries, the radical basic form of the circle (cf. her "Sphères"). But also there it is essential that - although reduced and abstract - the photograms or artist's hand prints have a sensitive aura, which is achieved by the differentiated tonality of the gray values. They are ensouled!
Drawing or painting with the light.


It is advisable to frame the artwork in custom-made frames with UV-museum glass. On view is a common frame from an art supply store.

For almost 20 years Gerda Schütte has created a whole cosmos of light drawings, memorable works of art, mostly unique.
What is new is that the current works have a pronounced recognizable physicality, radiate a great tenderness, her earlier photograms were very reduced abstract signs, which also at times work with the archetype of all geometries, the radical basic form of the circle (cf. her "Sphères"). But also there it is essential that - although reduced and abstract - the photograms or artist's hand prints have a sensitive aura, which is achieved by the differentiated tonality of the gray values. They are ensouled!
Drawing or painting with the light.

It is advisable to frame the artwork in custom-made frames with UV-museum glass. On view is a common frame from an art supply store.

For almost 20 years Gerda Schütte has created a whole cosmos of light drawings, memorable works of art, mostly unique.
What is new is that the current works have a pronounced recognizable physicality, radiate a great tenderness, her earlier photograms were very reduced abstract signs, which also at times work with the archetype of all geometries, the radical basic form of the circle (cf. her "Sphères"). But also there it is essential that - although reduced and abstract - the photograms or artist's hand prints have a sensitive aura, which is achieved by the differentiated tonality of the gray values. They are ensouled!
Drawing or painting with the light.
It is advisable to frame the artwork in custom-made frames with UV-museum glass. On view is a common frame from an art supply store.

Unitled (from the series »Branches«)

For almost 20 years Gerda Schütte has created a whole cosmos of light drawings, memorable works of art, mostly unique.
What is new is that the current works have a pronounced recognizable physicality, radiate a great tenderness, her earlier photograms were very reduced abstract signs, which also at times work with the archetype of all geometries, the radical basic form of the circle (cf. her "Sphères"). But also there it is essential that - although reduced and abstract - the photograms or artist's hand prints have a sensitive aura, which is achieved by the differentiated tonality of the gray values. They are ensouled!
Drawing or painting with the light!


Untitled (from the series »Branches«

Gerda Schütte, who still mainly produces photograms in her darkroom, will show works from her latest production. 

As we are already unsettled with the image above, she plays with perception. That it is a branch that is depicted becomes clear to everyone quite quickly, but that this is a photogram (technically accurate: an artist's hand print from a photogram) one only knows if one is familiar with the work of the artist, who since the advent of digital photography has also immediately put aside the analogue camera and since then has concentrated on light drawing with object, photographic paper and a light source in her Paris studio. The object depicted here could also be a watercolour, so amazing is the soft and delicate internal drawing of the light and dark tones. How Gerda Schütte arrived at this result remains her secret. But one thing is clear: many, many photographic papers are exposed and the result discarded until she has created the image that her inner eye has in mind.

Branches

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