Artist's Projects
Anke Völk’s art is resolutely abstract, but can’t be simply put in a classical art category: highly diverse in its presentation, formally extensive and unpredictable, it also uses relief and shiny, metallic, precious surfaces. Referring to earlier works in some of her paintings and installations, she is regularly looking for self-confirmation, instead of imitating other artists. The complexity of her open, limitless compositions, certainly refers to contemporary artistic questioning. In a number of works, pictorial and real space merge in one another and literally attract the viewer. If the materiality of her compositions is one of the important issues she consciously addresses, there are nonetheless subtle aspects that need to be pointed out such as mirror effects, transparencies, shimmering surfaces and unfinished spaces…
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