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I
have a lot of fun with my work as I am often taken by surprise by
what I paint and its origins. I know that nothing is coincidental
- everything is absorbed. I think that what makes us unique is the
way in which we sort our information. In my case words and phrases
are the result of this synthesis: they span a lifetime and emerge
as my titles. Sometimes these titles evade me, they are nowhere
to be found. Then I bump into a whole lot of them around the next
corner, hanging about as if they were waiting for me. Next is a
quick greeting of recognition and then the business of getting down
to where I left off:my title and I, rearing to go. The title a bridge
leading the viewer into my visual language.*
The following quote
describing the work of the painter Malevich would capture my imagination:
"He does not so much paint pictures, as engage in a wide
range of things from breaches of the peace in public places, to
fitting out the cosmos." **
I like the space and
the moment where nothing is sure, nothing is clear -
A moment that hovers before the drop, noise, understanding…
the connection grasping comprehension.
There's a gap void air bubble where things are still open: nothing
is fixed, nothing's certain secure, sure, for sure, irreversible.
In there, in this "open spaasie" I want to hold the
listener's / viewer's ear open, eye open, imagination open, alert.
And stretch out the moment of expectation and uncertainty, keep
her / him guessing at where it will go.
Claudia Shneider born
in Johannesburg,. BA.Fine Art Stellenbosch. Post Grad studies
Munich Art Academy. First solo exhibition 2000 at Galerie Rupert
Walser, Munich. 2001 awarded a sponsored solo show for young artists
at the Art Cologne.
Acknowledgments: *
Jerry Zenuik ** extract of an article "The true Malevich"
by Andrei Kovalev for the magazine Artchronicka.
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