It is above all the swinging lightness that defines so many of Carmen Hillers' works, even when the colors are applied in a highly condensed manner, as in the Lyric Pieces. The paintings resonate not only in the shapes and rhythms of the lines, but also in the application of paint. They are not canvases, but Carmen Hillers paints on light fabric, voile, a little translucent, which remains visible as a structure under the paint: For the paint, applied as egg tempera, will vibrate in the surface like notes of music.
Up close, it can be seen that in this painting each brushstroke not only “sits”, but vibrates within the framework of a delicate web of lines, which is generally not applied to the paint, but is created by meticulous recesses in which underlying layers of paint or the pure weave of the fabric emerge.
THOMAS SELLO, Hamburger Kunsthalle
| 1957 | born in Hamburg, lives as a freelance artist and author in Hamburg |
| since 1989 | Exhibitions in galleries, art associations, museums and other places |
| since 2005 | Features and musical performances |
| 2009 | Invitation of the Schubert Society of the USA to participate in the research project "Picturing Winterreise - Schubert's Song Cycle in Art". |
| 2009–13 | Art/Music- Features at the Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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2015
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the LP of the Hamburg composer Steffen Wolf was published, Acht Blicke auf Mondenschein - Kompositionen zu Bildern von Carmen Hillers |
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