Lola Cuallado: Spotted Alphabet

In this exhibition of Lola Cuallado's paintings, large-format pictures of industrial equipment and objects, which set clear colour accents in their signal-coloured luminosity, are juxtaposed with smaller pictures of grey stones. They are actually quite banal motifs that would hardly be worth a second glance outside the exhibition space, on the roadside or in an industrial wasteland. However, the viewer's gaze is drawn to the details. The original colour of a blue container is already peeling in many places, with rust growing underneath. The complementary contrast created in these places of decomposition almost makes the blue of the painted colour glow even more strongly. An orange-red excavator shovel is also badly battered from countless uses, yet the increasing decay breathes active life into it and tells of events.

The artist Lola Cuallado, born in Lyon in 1997, depicts the effects of time on objects that are actually inanimate. Steel machine parts oxidise and will eventually disintegrate, while nature itself animates stones. The artist focuses her attention on continuous change, on life in the inanimate. In her exhibition "Fleckenalphabet", she focusses on everyday objects and natural landscape situations. Viewed from a distance, she creates impressively vivid testimonies of a rusty container or a collection of boulders with great skill. On closer inspection, the paintings are convincing due to their special style of painting and their delight in material and materiality.

Last edited on 20.11.2024