Intuition Connects with Technique
Anke Goetsch
“In my view, it is good art if someone’s feelings, the artist’s or someone else’s, if authenticity and personality lie beneath the surface of the image,” says Karin Camara this weekend at the opening of her exhibition “Beweg-Gründe” (Motivations) at the
Neustrelitzer
Museum
.
The native of
Neubrandenburg
has been living in Lapitz (
County
of
Müritz
) for over ten years. One notices that she has acquired the stimulation for her artistic work from within this environment. With a parsimonious use of lines, she captures the landscapes around her. Her pencil drawings are somewhat harsh and rough, whereas her chalk and sepia drawings or aquarelle paintings of landscape-impressions come across as more sentimental.
Karin Camara often travels among her immediate surroundings and many small pictures arise directly in her car. With her landscape-impressions, she intends to address feelings and conjure up an observer’s memories of past experiences. She does not wish to tell stories about the landscapes, but rather capture moods. She finds it especially thrilling to work reductively, concentrating only upon the essential. Visitors to the exhibition were only too glad to accompany her on this intense contemplation of the
Mecklenburg
landscape.
“Artistic work entails, for me, the establishment of an aesthetic connection between intuition and technique,” formulates Karin Camara as part of her statement of artistic intention. Here lie her artistic roots as a working painter. The artist is a member of the Association of Mecklenburg / Vorpommern Artists and, since 2004, has also been a member of the international artist group pintura fresca. Apart from the landscape painter, there is another Karin Camara who paints abstractly and with a potent use of colors. A selection of this work can be seen on her website. The exhibit runs in the museum until January 15.
