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Katharina Grosse in "Fiction"Preview
In this preview from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7 episode, Fiction, artist Katharina Grosse describes a “thought based” approach to creating work.
Shown at work from Amaral Custom Fabrications in Bristol, Rhode Island, the artist spray paints sculptural elements that are to be included in Just Two of Us—her 2013 exhibition for Public Art Fund at MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn, New York. “There is an overall agreement that I have with myself as I start something,” says the artist about her process. “That agreement is based on a judgment.”
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Katharina Grosse is a painter who often employs electrifying sprayed acrylic colors to create large-scale sculptural environments and smaller wall works. Interested in the shifts of scale between ‘imagining big’ while being small in relationship to one’s surroundings, she explores the dynamic interplay between observing the world and simply being in it. By uniting a fluid perception of landscape with the ordered hierarchy of painting, Grosse treats both architecture and the natural world as an armature for expressive compositions of dreamy abandon, humorous juxtaposition, and futuristic flair.
Artwork Survey: 2010s
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