Paintings 1
Barracks, 100 x 240 cm, oil on canvas, Berlin
1995
"....there are no indications of human beings on her
facades, where all individuality has been increasingly removed. The facades
which Pleuger fixes in our gaze are dehumanized and anonymous, and based
on the principle of her serial production of facades, they present us with
the brutal reality of the alienation of human beings from their environment."
(Excerpts by German curator Katrin Becker from Ute Pleuger's Catalog, "Serial
Spaces", (Werbund-Archiv, Martin-Gropius-Building, Berlin, 1996)
Barracks, 100 x 720 cm (3 parts of 100 x 240
cm), oil on canvas, Berlin 1995
"Ute Pleuger has been painting facades since the mid-80’s.
The facade is not, however, a stage-setting for describable events taking
place behind it, but her theme is the facade itself....she is not concerned
with events going on behind the walls that face her, but with the abstract
entity of the facade in its own spatial constellation, its relation to
the surrounding space and finally the continuity between the painting’s
surface and the space within the painting."
Berliner Fassade 230 x 300 cm, (3 panels)
oil on linen, Berlin 1985
Gelber Hof, 240 x 285 cm, (3 Panels), oil
on canvas, Berlin 1983
