Polka

Palmadotze presents “Polka”, the first solo exhibition by German artist Sabine Finkenauer (Rockenhausen, Germany, 1961). The exhibition brings together a collection of her most recent works; paintings with gouache and acrylic, as well as drawings made with coloured pencils that, beneath their minimalist compositions and a world of elementary and naive forms, conceal an elaborate intellectual process of synthesis and simplification.

Finkenauer's artistic practice is based on drawing, from which he develops and concretizes his ideas in a visual way.

The motifs appear and evolve in his sketchbooks through a process of observation and perception, awaiting their subsequent transformation and translation to other materials and supports.

Finkenauer describes his work process as one of synthesis and clarification, which starts with figuration, present in his earliest work, which evoked an imaginary related to childhood, nature and the domestic environment.

Over the years she has crystallized a vocabulary of simple forms, inspired by ornament and geometry. Her artistic method can be defined as a game, whose rules are established by playing and above all, an aspiration for simplicity, in which she considers, lies the greatest beauty.

Form and its transmutations between representation and abstraction, as well as the ambiguity of its meanings are the core of his artistic approach.

Her work, as defined by the artist herself, generally deals with "things", objects taken from everyday life, which are portrayed in a simple but rigorous language, using a wide range of media such as painting, drawing, collage, textiles, sculpture and installation in situ.

Recently, his formal research has been related to construction and architecture, as well as to the play of geometric patterns and ornament. There is also a growing interest in the mutual definition of drawing and space, the tension between plane and thing, which calls for material realization.