Karin Monschauer
Biography
Karin Monschauer creates worlds full of shapes and colors with computer graphics software. Her Digital Art creates abstractions of infinite interpretations. The embroidery technique has always fascinated her, allowing to externalize the connection and the interweaving of colors and shapes. This methodology, ‘raqm’ in Arabic, allows to create ornamental designs on fabric through the use of one or more threads of different colors. She draws on her initially manual skills and uses art design programs to plan abstractions rich in geometric evolutions connected in tonal ranges between hot and cold.
Monschauer proposes visual languages characterized by pure imagination as well as explicit reference to nature and textures by ancient and modern masters. She digitally paints undefined tracks every human being interprets and follows.
Currently, her art is permanently represented with one work at the European Art Museum, Frederiksvaerk, Denmark, and four works at Le Bois Du Cazier Museum, Charleroi, Belgium.
Artist Statement
Karin Monschauer tells about herself …
It all started thanks to the embroidery technique that allowed me, over the years, to develop a personal visual and practical connection between colors and shapes.
Digital art is undoubtedly the medium that allows me to reach an expressive thought rich in geometric figures, always placed in harmony with different chromatic shades.
From the contemporary I combine, thanks to the computer technology, structures dear to the geometry and colors with always pulsating nuances. In this way, the universes that I am going to determine, constantly stimulate me at the artistic level and arise from the study of past civilizations together with their architectures.
My artistic research aims to communicate positive feelings such as serenity, happiness and tranquility.
As a demonstration of what I write, my personal compositional verve is experiencing a very fruitful creative moment, allowing me a constant, almost inexhaustible, creation of colors and geometric figures.
My Art simply wants to be a cultivated and enjoyable fun, aiming only at the soul of the people who are in front of my works.
My abstraction and dynamism live in continuous processing for weaving compositions that are constantly in motion.
What first prompted you to think of becoming an artist?
Since my early years of high school, my passion for mathematics and figurative compositions has led me to develop my art with the technique of embroidery.I started producing geometric figures and experimented with the half cross-stitch technique, playing with vibrant color tones.
What kind of an artist do you ultimately see yourself?
I am an extremely rational woman. I love math. My works, above all the digital ones, always have a logical consequence of numbers and colors. Of course, everything around me influences me, but I see this … have a title spontaneously in my head, the work remains untitled. But if I get a title, I understand what prompted me to do the work.
What are you hoping to communicate to the viewer through your work?
My Art simply wants to be a cultivated and enjoyable fun, aiming only at the soul of the people who are in front of my works. I wish to communicate various topics such as happiness, tranquility, serenity and fun. There is a lot of negativity in society in this pandemic period. With my work I try to create a positive approach to life.
Can you explain the process of creating your work?
I have an idea and I make a sketch. So I choose the colors I would like to have in this work and start putting one color next to the other. The image then evolves slowly, I always try new things, the result is an image usually different from what I imagined at the beginning.
What is your favourite part of the creative process?
I like to play with numbers and my works always have a logical sequence of geometric shapes and colors, from which beautiful patterns emerge.
Can you give us an insight into current projects and inspiration, or what we can look forward to from you in the near future?
I will be present in several books and catalogs this year and will participate in several group exhibitions, in June in Rome, in September in Venice and Helsinki, in October in Singapore. But above all I was chosen to participate in Expo 2021 in Abu Dhabi, from here I am very proud of.
Website: karinmonschauer.ch
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