Caroline von Grone: LIVE Übertragung

Mission as a concept

"When I walk through the museum, I can tell which picture was modelled and which wasn't!" - Caroline von Grone has a keen and unerring eye for situations and portraits. In 1991, she was a master student of Klaus Rinke at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and, quite untypically for that time, specialised in portrait painting, either with models she had approached in underground stations, for example, or with people who had ordered a portrait from her. One of her strengths is that she "does not invent" observations. This goes hand in hand with a visual acuity that gives the viewer great pleasure. Time and again, the pictures also offer the picture within the picture, such as abstractly conceived tiled walls, floor tiles or the interiors of public places such as telephone booths or ticket machines. She has also repeatedly painted houses, for example houses in a North German housing estate before they were demolished. She was particularly interested in such final states - a kind of antithesis to the photography of the Bechers, for example. For Caroline von Grone, painting in public was always part of her practice, because otherwise she "wouldn't get the still-life-like presence into the picture if I tried to do it from a photo".

Exhibition:
Gallery of the city of Backnang, 13/5 - 13/8/2023