Ellen Gronemeyer “frozen”

Ellen Gronemeyer “frozen”

Anton Kern Gallery

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For her first solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Berlin-based painter Ellen Gronemeyer presents a group of new paintings that portray youthful characters, children, and the occasional animal in a topsy-turvy world of whirring colors and improbability. Captured alone or in friendly groupings, and often engaged in various stages of contemplation and transformation, Gronemeyer’s protagonists are fueled with the paradoxical energies of the possible and the imagined.

How real is the likelihood of metamorphosis, Gronemeyer’s paintings seem to be asking, how probable a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one? Let’s say, the mutation of a young man into a mechanical spider wearing socks and gloves suspended from the unknown into a shadowy mountainscape; or, two friends embracing while their heads transform into large globes, like two worlds meeting; or, four adolescent dancers in a cramped space with two of the figures breaking apart at hip level and nearly merging into each other while an onlooker seems mildly startled.

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