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Project #15: Suzanne Wild
DavisKlemmGallery Projektraum, Kirchstraße 4, 65239 Hochheim am MainProject #15: Suzanne Wild
THE ARTIST
Suzanne Wild (*1960 London) studied at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and at the renowned Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has been a guest lecturer at various faculties in Europe. Her works are regularly shown in solo and group exhibitions in Europe. She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Her early works focus on abstraction and nonrepresentational art. Through landscapes and interiors with impressionistic features, she came to objects such as shoes. However, light and naturalism have always played a major role in her work.
MATERIALS
Oil on canvas. The classic among paintings. Suzanne Wild's painting style is also classic, almost traditional. But here she does not show representative paintings in huge, room-filling formats. Instead, she shows small portraits that would even fit in a shoe closet. They could fill an entire room in their quantity. The fact that this is wonderfully possible is also thanks to the standardization of formats. She uses mainly three formats, thus making it possible to hang hundreds of works together. Like an archivist, she stores her collected models according to color and size.
PRODUCTION
Making art often starts differently than one would think. In Suzanne Wild's case the starting point is in second-hand stores, at the flea market or wherever she finds her models. These can also be other things: Women's underwear, children's skirts, gloves, wigs. What they all have in common is that they have a feminine connotation, that they caught Suzanne Wild's eye and that they tell a story. Whether true or not is irrelevant. It is those bright red pumps that turn a woman into a dancing queen on a Saturday night. They are pieces for special occasions, but also for everyday wear. Worn once - and then they gather dust in the wardrobe. Or a favorite pair that is worn every day. These are the kind of stories that can be read into her shoe portraits - shoes with visible character.
INFLUENCE
Velázquez! That's one of the answers Suzanne Wild promptly gives when asked which artists inspire her. And the answer is obvious as well. Diego Velázquez: The Spanish superstar of portrait painting in the 17th century. Naturalistic depictions and light play a major role in his work. He influenced artists from Goya to Picasso. The way Velázquez shows how light and shadows on the robes of the Spanish royal family can also be found in Suzanne Wild's works of women's shoes and children's sandals. The focus is also the same. Against a dark or monochrome background, the shoes are staged just as honorably as the king's daughter Margarita in Las Meninas - Velasquez's most famous work.
THE SPACE
The 20 m² room, in which pens and exercise books were previously sold, is now available to artists from the DavisKlemmGallery as a project space. Instead of regular but limited opening times, the room can be viewed around the clock: the entire room and thus the project can be viewed at all times thanks to the large window front. Changing projects, installations, works of art and artists can be discovered here. The current presentation will be on view until July 28th, 2024.
