Franziska Fennert Solo Exhibition: Fragile Abundance
“My work nourishes itself from the fertile ground of fantastic traditions, fairytales and legends” ——Franziska Fennert
Exhibition
Franziska Fennert, a young artist of German origin and now living in Yogyakarta, has received art awards in Indonesia and Germany. Studying in Germany and traveling around in Europe, China and Indonesia, she develops a very personal visual uniqueness that emphasizes upon metaphors. The freedom and concentration in Chinese ink painting and Japanese wood prints, the myths in Javanese paintings, the meditation and prayer associating with Russian icons painting, flat technique and stunning space in the medieval Persian miniature,and the Magic Realism of Post-expressionist——these aforementioned artistic activities left their traces and merge effortlessly into the artist’s works, wonderful representation of her opinion, mission and biography.
Bizarre human figures translocate to the fantasy reserves and seemly happy animals travel between imaginative forest and human land. Yet it takes only a short while until the viewer recognize tiger’s melancholy...... all elements in Franziska Fennert’s paintings deliberately come with vibrant even “girlish” colours, distinctive and stylized brushworks to channel viewers’ engagement. Should the universe be a forest of symbols, the narrations and elements in Fennert’s works invite viewers to dive into it and encounter her optimism, borrowed from her favorite philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, and reflection: Our universe is, in a restricted sense, the best possible one. Dominating all the beings and elements in the world seems to be mankind’s current way of living – but is it the only way? Or there are possibilities should be investigated? Shouldn’t we communicate and collaborate with the other beings and elements in the world?