Simone Klerx in the Museum Kunstpalast, 2017

The paintings of Simone Klerx examine "pictorial space, surrounding space and its grey zones". The artist works with different techniques, especially acrylic and watercolor on paper and canvas. Her work reveals the tension between spatial illusion and surface. Folded, layered and cut shapes are subjected to an interplay of light and shadow. Her preferred objects are triangles and squares, which tilt and float in kaleidoscopic nesting and open up unknown new spaces. Large, conceptual and abstract picture worlds are the result. The focus is on multi-segmented and serial works, whose installation let them interact with real space.
In 2017, for example, she developed the multipart, space-consuming work for the Museum Kunstpalast, entitled 'Unknown Space ́.


 

In her `Paradoxe Intervention ́, `Selective Perception ́ and `Self-Fulfilling Prophecy ́ (work of three) Simone Klerx deals with phenomena of painting that come close to the character of perceptual psychology - a playful alienation, reflected by the title of the works.





The colorful, painterly design, the gentle, nuanced transitions from black to white, the shimmering surface suggest a play of light and shadow and, in combination with the fine lines, an irritating illusion of space.
Depending on the viewer's own perception and point of view when facing the picture, surfaces emerge or recede, bulge outwards or inwards, form a body - a pyramid, for example - or simply adjoin each other as surfaces.
The spatial illusion can arise from one moment to the next or tilt again, taking on the impression of a surface and playing with the viewer's perception.
The kaleidoscopic fragments together form an ornamental structure.

- text extract by Dr. Brigitte Splettstößer -



Simone Klerx studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Prof. Siegfried Anzinger, Prof. Lucy MC Kenzie. In 2013 she received the master student certificate from Prof. Markus Lüpertz.