Sabine Finkenauer
Bio
Sabine Finkenauer, born in 1961 in the city of Rockenhausen, Germany, has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1993. After studying at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, she specialized in sculpture, although in the early 1980s when she settled in Barcelona, her work took a turn towards painting.
It has taken several years of constant progression and recognition. Her individual exhibition at the Städtische Galerie de Villingen – Schwenningen, in Germany and her participation in Non-Declarative drawing at the Drawing Center in New York (2007), curated by Luis Camnitzer, confirm the interest of his work. In the same way, we highlight her participation in Painting: permanent renewal, curated by Mariano Navarro at the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid (2021) and in Drawing Positions, curated by Monica Álvarez Careaga at the CAB in Burgos (2019).
Statement
“My work generally treats just of "things", objects taken from daily life such as pieces of furniture, dresses, plants, buildings, or mountains. Figures such as little girls, princesses, or dolls that appear to be related to children's stories and imaginary worlds are also present. This whole universe of "things" is portrayed in a simple yet rigorous formal language, playfully situated between abstraction and concrete images. Also leading to poetry and irony, my approach to this seemingly naïve or even stupid imaginary world is clearly formalistic. In my search for the limits of representation, things are divested of their attributes and converted into "form". Form is the true theme of my work—the ambiguity between representation and definition being a sign or symbol that travels in an intimate and subjective way from the visible to the invisible, from what we see to that which exists.”
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
