PAINTINGS 2
Nischen V, 200 x 200 cm, black oil paint on canvas,
1990
"The fact that Pleuger has devoted herself for about a decade to the same
motif is unusual in an age of fleeting digital images. The repetition of
the image-motif and the serial nature of the images seems to want to forestall
this ephemeral quality. Ute Pleuger paints further and further beyond the
gaze at the facade, and the peculiarity of painting, as compared for example
to photography, lies in the fact that painting is always an appropriation
of the world determined decisively by its construction."
(Kathrin Becker, 1996)
Untitled, 4 Panels, 150 x 100 cm oil on canvas, 1995
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Laternen, 170 x 200 cm, oil on canvas, Berlin,
1989
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Einfamilienhaeuser,170 200 cm, oil on canvas,
Berlin 1992
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Blaue Haeuser, 140 x 200 cm, oil on canvas, Berlin
1991
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Hochhaeuser 1, 170 x 200 cm, oil on canvas, Berlin
1991
Hochhaeuser 2
200 x 170 cm, oil on canvas, Berlin 1991
"....While Pleuger brings into question the different
possibilities of spatial representation of the image, she also uses methods
common to photography and film: the close-up, the enlargement, the detail
view. Through the impossibility of comprehending the image as a totality
and the necessity for a gradual “looking inside,” through the application
of differing observational standpoints in a single picture, through the
intensification of the boundary between abstraction and recognizability,
through the apparently asymmetrical displacement of the painted masses
in her three- and four-canvas series, the perception of her images resembles
that of film, in that the observer’s eye is constantly in motion."
Kathrin Becker, 1996
Rotunde, 140x1000 cm, 5 panels, oil on canvas,
1996
