SABINE HEMMING: LIVING SHAPES

SABINE HEMMING

Living Shapes

Curated by Stefania Carrozzini

Opening: Wednesday June 12  2024

6-8 PM

June 12- June 27, 2024

MyMicroGallery is pleased to present, from 12 June to 27 June 2024, “Living Shapes”, the first solo show in Italy by German artist Sabine Hemming. On display are twelve oil on canvas works in which the main subject is the Chandelier. Sabine Hemming’s work therefore starts from an object that emits light. It is a suspended, immobile body, but capable of generating lights and shadows, colors and transparencies. In the pictorial space the artist interprets it as a living form, experiments creative energies in movement, expresses intimate connections, changes, vibrations, communicating geographies of the soul.

The chandelier, and specifically the classic crystal chandelier, is the object congenial to the artist because it allows her to connect to natural forms in a translated way and to immerse herself in the charm of environmental re-enactments. Light and space converge and her shapes often evoke natural and vegetal elements. Hemming’s painting, following these traces, develops a transmutation that makes the object impalpable, making it resonate with the space, making use of pulsating monochromes and tone-on-tone modulations, which change at every angle. We are in the light that reflects from the crystals to the surrounding environment and returns to us with the language of painting. It is a luminous body that, as in life, is actively shaped by movement and change. And life exists only in the dynamism story. The Chandelier is a good symbol of change over time. It is a cult object that can represent value, luxury, pomp. But it is still the more or less opulent evolution of the lamp which on a symbolic level refers to the dawn of knowledge and wonder, to the light of creation, to the archetype of the traveler holding the lantern in his hand in search of the way, of the truth, of the Diogenes’ lantern that the ancient philosopher carried with him to search for an honest man, but above all to search for the essence of man.

The Chandelier, from which Sabine Hemming starts and then reaches the threshold of abstraction, is an object symbolizing the unification of times, the present, the past and which allows her to perceive, within the space, floating forms connected to each other, the future, which little by little they lose their real connotations to fall apart into countless brushstrokes and splashes of light. It is a poetic symphony capable of moving between things according to an alchemical dimension, capable of reactivating, in a sensitive and absolutely personal way, the artistic space and the creative process.

Attracted by the transformative process of painting, Sabine Hemming uses the pictorial figurative element with the desire to expand and make invisible energies manifest, anchoring herself to a structure, in this case the chandelier, which is only apparently in a state of inertia, but which actually seduces in terms of aesthetics and function. Due to the artist’s sensitivity it becomes a symbol of the condition of being, so that her fluctuation, from one dimension to another, from darkness to light, can reveal her truth and her vision of the world.

Sabine Hemming, born in Munich in 1974, graduated from high school in Stuttgart, trained as a ceramicist at the Iljinski Ceramic Studio and the Stuttgart-Feuerbach Color and Design School, graduated in 1995. She studied at the Stuttgart Free Art School with the lecturers Neisser, Heger and Kilian, and she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with professors Baumgartel and Güdemann, graduated in 2001. Teaching at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart. Since 2001, she has been working as a freelance artist in her own studio. Permanently living on Lake Constance since 2009, with a studio in Neuwerk Konstanz since 2013. Numerous group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad as well as participation in artist and trade fairs such as in Stuttgart, Konstanz, Basel, artists’ fair in Schwetzingen Castle and in Hamburg, in Dubai UEA at the Expo, in Stuttgart at the Retro Classic, in Friedrichshafen at the Klassikwelt Bodensee, at the ART Zurich and at the Expo Milano. She is represented by Galerie Schill in Stuttgart, projects with Galerie Lachenmann ART Konstanz and Galerie Passepartout in Milan.