Regine Schumann creates artworks positioned between painting and three-dimensional objects using acrylic color sheets specially produced for her in the collaboration with skilled craftsmen in the factory. She carefully regulates the amount of the pigment, which is often fluorescent, in acrylic sheets and the degree how much it reflects or absorbs light. And constructs her work on these acrylic boards with different colors and characters as if painters overlay colors on canvas with different color paints.
The transformations of her work, perceptible in different light moods such as daylight, artificial light, or black light enable an ever-changing viewing experience and accentuate the relation of color, light and surrounding space, the synchronicity of visible and invisible. Especially with black light, her work becomes luminescent and creates real color rooms in atmospherically charged oscillations and generates almost physical palpable experiences.
She is a minimalist like Donald Judd and Larry Bell, working with simple geometric forms and pure colors. But at the same time, since she started her carrier as a painter, she desires her work to emit color and energy to surrounding space as Abstract Expressionist painting or Color Field Painting as Mark Rothkoユs does. She is leading the field of Light Art in Germany and enriches the field like Dan Flavin and James Turrell.
On this occasion, a free-standing piece shall be installed for the first time in Japan. Also, small free-standing work in the edition will be on view. Please come to take a look at her new playful and poetic work although using artificial and industrial materials and simple forms.
3 minute walk from exit 5 at Shin-Nihombashi Station on the JR Sobu and Yokosuka lines, 5 minute walk from exit A4 at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines, 8 minute walk from exit A5 at Ningyocho Station on the Hibiya or Toei Asakusa line
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