Claudia Desgranges
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Installation Views

Installation view: Claudia Desgranges at Galerie Gilla Lörcher 2020
Foto: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Lörcher and the artist

Installation view: Claudia Desgranges at Galerie Gilla Lörcher 2020
Foto: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Lörcher and the artist

Installation view: Claudia Desgranges at Galerie Gilla Lörcher 2020
Foto: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Lörcher and the artist

Installation view: Claudia Desgranges at Galerie Gilla Lörcher 2020
Foto: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Lörcher and the artist

Installation view: Claudia Desgranges at Galerie Gilla Lörcher 2020
Foto: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Lörcher and the artist

Installation view: Claudia Desgranges at Galerie Gilla Lörcher 2020
Foto: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Lörcher and the artist
Works

Composite Painting Pink, # 65, 2020
4 parts. All: 200 x 200 cm
acrylic/ pigments on aluminium
Photo: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Composite Painting # 66, 2020
2 parts, each 40 x 50 cm
acrylic/pigments on aluminium
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist

Composite Painting # 68, 2020
2 parts, 40 x 50 cm
acrylic/pigments on aluminium
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist

Composte Painting # 70, 2020
3 parts. All: 170 x 170 cm
acrylic/pigments on aluminium
Photo: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Press Release
/The exhibition by Cologne-based painter Claudia Desgranges is the third part of the "Female Contemporary Abstract Painters" series at Galerie Gilla Lörcher. The series started with Ivana Klickovic from Berlin (17.01. – 28.02.2020) and followed by Simone Strasser from Munich (14.03. - 13.06.2020).
Claudia Desgranges says about her artistic work, which refers to an examination of abstract modernism, minimalism, abstract expressionism and color field painting: "It is my goal to achieve freedom in painting, to go beyond conventions, to initiate new viewing habits ... We are exposed to so many media, everything is going faster and faster, a lot at the same time. I respond to this with the slow medium of painting ... The goal is not to sink into a picture, the eye should wander around."
Claudia Desgranges (born 1953 in Frankfurt) lives and works in Cologne and Munich. Desgranges studied painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has received several grants and honours including Kunstfonds Bonn (1988), Sparkassenstiftung Bonn (1998), Pollock - Krasner Foundation, New York (2014), Erwin and Gisela Steiner Stiftung Munich (1917).
Her work has been shown among others at: Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund; Raum Schroth, Wilhelm Morgener Museum, Soest; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim; Kunstmuseum Celle; Bielefelder Kunstverein; Heidelberger Kunstverein; Kunstverein Mönchengladbach; Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte, Appenzell (CH); Kunstverein Würzburg; Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloß Morsbroich; Mies-van-der-Rohe-Haus Berlin.