CORINNE VON LEBUSA
TEXTS (SELECTION)
DANS MON LIT with Inga Kerber
Jarmuschek + Partner | March 9 – April 17, 2021
Provocative or sensually seductive, strong or vulnerable - the female figures in Corinne von Lebusa‘s narrative paintings appear in a multitude of possible roles. The artist picks up existing clichés playfully and with a wink. She places her protagonists into situations that puzzle us and fire our own imagination. Given the the cinematic compositions, we almost automatically begin to reconstruct the before and after in an individual way. What cannot be seen is created before the mind‘s eye. Immediately one wants to ask for the meaning: What is this story about, who are the protagonists and what attitude can be taken to what is observed? Are we encountering a male fantasy here, a dream sequence or the depiction of an actual event? Like through a keyhole, scenes of submission, control or uncontrolledness can be seen, in which men appear mostly as shadowy figures or fragmentary. The ambivalence of the pictorial event is underlined by the ambiguous titles, which often contain ironic-humorous commentaries. Corinne von Lebusa holds a mirror up to us and confronts us with the pigeonholes, looks and experiences that we carry within ourselves. She shows us female figures in manifold facets and still draws our attention to a small section of a truth that can be thought, concidered and drawn ahead infinitely. The artist gives a perspective on something that already exists in our world: Attitude, staging, pose, culture, history and stories. With a fascinating lightness, her works animate us to reflect and observate and let us search for a quintessence especially in ourselves.
Corinne von Lebusa was born in Herzberg in 1978. After studying fashion and graphic design at the Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Fine Arts in Halle, she began her painting studies with Prof. Arno Rink at the HGB Leipzig in 2001, which she completed in 2008 with Prof. Neo Rauch with a diploma. Corinne von Lebusa has developed and perfected her unique artistic technique over a long period of time. The atmosphere and the diffuse light effect of her works are created by painting watercolor layer by layer into an absorbent paper and finally fixing the image with a UV varnish.
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IN DEN TIEFEN DER GRÜNDE with Carina Linge
Jarmuschek + Partner | November 5-December 10, 2016
(extract from the exhibition text)
[...]The powerful figures and abstract formations in Corinne von Lebusa’s works seem to be vivid but yet mysterious pictograms of passion, eroticism and roll playing games. Selfconsciously female, enjoying and playful, they require the view and provoke the reaction of the presumed voyeur, coquetting sometimes winking and inspiring, sometimes mocking and threatening with enactment, gestures, stereotypes and phantasies. Torn between fascination and self-interrogation, the viewer gets captivated. Attempting to comprehend the message of the seen, he is referred to his own personality and associations again and again.[...]