Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2012, 28 x 21 cm , oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger was born in Vienna, and still lives and works there. She studied with Albert Oehlen at the Kunstakadamie Dusseldorf, and shows mostly in Europe. She is represented by Marianne Boesky in New York, and will have a show there in October 2015.
One of the most striking aspects of Deininger's work is her sensitivity to the nuances of her materials -- her ability to achieve a wonderful variety of surface and edge within a highly reduced vocabulary. She does this with utmost subtlety, employing soft color contrasts, and shapes and lines that both adhere to and slide away from the grid. Her facture reads like collage, and indeed her paintings seem to be constructed similarly, with the slippages that occur at the edges of shapes offering dynamic punch. Some of her recent work has become a bit more complex and assertive -- perhaps sacrificing some of the delicacy and the brittleness that I find especially beautiful -- but still remarkably sensual. I look forward to her October show with much interest.
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2012, 65 x 50 cm, oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2012, 28 x 21 cm, oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2012, 28 x 21 cm, oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2012, 28 x 21 cm, oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2013, 28 x 21 cm, oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015, 40 x 45 cm, oil on canvas
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2015, 50 x 40 cm, oil on canvas
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