Christine Pellikan - Pictures

Themes of the artworks: harmony in between of nature and death Technique of the two paperworks: inked, cracked and mounted Chinese paper Technique of the Space Sculpture: found and red-painted “dead” wood It is a pleasure to present my thoughts about my work to you:
Paper is the medium I frequently use for my artworks. In Beijing, I’ve learned the handicraft of mounting traditional Chinese roll pictures. With that technique, I was able to go from papercutting to cracking and mounting paper.

Within one decade, I created extensive series of roll pictures and ink paintings.
In 2004, the Gallery 3818 Warehouse 798 in Beijing commented on their invitation card about my exhibition, “With Chinese traditional painting materials, rice paper and Chinese ink, as the medium to combine traditional Chinese painting and the western way of expression, that raises a feeling of nature, harmony and elegancy.”

For this exhibition:
The abstract works remind of structures of trees inspired by Chinese traditional ink paintings as well as the traditional technique of mounting paper. In the series for this exhibition, I combine roll pictures with a sculpture (found and red-painted “dead” wood). The aspects of the artwork themes are nature, death and transitoriness and go hand in hand in a formal way with one another. The paperworks are two-dimensional and the sculpture is three-dimensional and enter into a dialogue with one another.
A larger amount of Chinese artists are painting with oil on canvas (a technique which derived from the Western world). Despite my Austria roots I paint with Chinese ink and working with Chinese hand-made paper. Only some Western artists are working in their consciously with the influences of Chinese culture. Over time, I have turned into a so called ‘bi-cultural human being’. In a way my heart, my mind and my artworks are influenced by both the Chinese and the Austrian culture.