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Martin Kreim - Occupied
Martin Kreim has chosen „Occupied“ as the title for his current exhibition which gives his newest series of paintings an ambiguous meaning.
In these painting, the artist portrays people which are “occupied”, busy, but at the same time possessed or penetrated by the situations of their everyday life. These situations again are “occupied” by things, objects and buildings that also claim rooms or places which sometimes serve a certain purpose, but sometimes only seem to be there.
Thus the viewers are confronted with scenes taken from the live of hairdressers and the retailers, but also with scenes from the kitchen and the bathroom. Kreim shows people as human beings that are captured by the activities of their everyday life and that busy themselves often with trivialities which take possession of them often their whole life long: washing, cooking, shopping and personal hygiene. Kreim´s programme is opposed to the unreal world of commercials and glamour and seeks harmony between the human beings and their everyday- life. This is underlined by his selection of the harmonius colour range he uses.
Furthermore, Kreim acts like a reflector of our days: Not only is he fascinated by actual reflections and their magic which he records in his paintings, Kreim also holds a mirror in front of us in which he shows our everyday- life, that often seems so unimportant and grey to ourselves, in hopeful and happy colours. So his statement that we are “occupied” with our own little world, may be understood in a positive sense.
With his “ Kasse” (till)- paintings Kreim breaks new ground in stilistic respect. Realism and abstraction collide in the form of an implied room, similar to unimportant everyday- situations in real life when men can overcome these only by the means of metaphysical or abstract thoughts. However positive the whirlpool of everyday-life may be portrayed by Kreim, he does not believe that this will be the end of all things, and so he calls for the need in man to overcome his earthly state of “occupation” or captivity.
Dr. Kunkler
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