Claudia Chaseling, Cyanobacteria, 2021, gold leaf, egg tempera and oil on canvas, and gold leaf, 30 x 30 cm.
Claudia Chaseling
Our understanding of the world is increasingly put to a hard test —experiences, connections, and processes are obscured and single-minded solutions are no longer to be had in the mud of half-truths, interests, ideologies, and promises. It is precisely this opacity that the artwork of Claudia Chaseling alludes to. The insightful form and beauty that can materialize from such disturbing opacities are no less than the riddle of art. Claudia Chaseling's expansive paintings act in the complex field of aesthetics as resistance and revolt, transformation and distancing from experienced or mediated reality: banishment and release at the same time. These images are not theory-based pamphlets. The thematic’s starting point is exclusively chosen in each case, and the research change, comes to life in the painting process, drawing ever wider circles that frame the theme, open it up, expand it, and sometimes even call it into question. With their whirling dynamics, with the intertwining of lines and color planes, these images create an irresolvable oscillation between visibility and foreboding, between concise form and something that eludes form or formation. Words occur, and illuminate; they are at once drawing, reference, and enigma. These pictorial formations become a stage on which the contradictions, the fundamental ambivalences of our conception of the world are played out and acted out.
selected Artworks
Claudia Chaseling, A few doorsteps away, 2021, gold leaf, egg tempera and oil on canvas, and gold leaf, 30 x 30 cm
Claudia Chaseling, Threshold 1, 2019, gold leaf, pigments, MDM binder and oil on canvas, 200 x 120 cm ovoid
Claudia Chaseling, Temporary, 2019, gold leaf, pigments, MDM binder and oil on canvas, 200 x 120 cm ovoid
Claudia Chaseling, Mutopia 1, 2019, gold leaf, PVC silver, egg tempera, MDM and oil on wall, floor, canvas and concrete, 600 x 900 x 600 cm SOAD Gallery, Canberra, Australia. Photo: Studio Claudia Chaseling
Claudia Chaseling, Mutopia 2, 2019, gold leaf, aluminum, egg tempera, MDM binder and oil on wall and ceiling, 330 x 1100 x 3300 cm, Art in Buildings, 310W., Milwaukee, USA. Photo: Studio Claudia Chaseling
Claudia Chaseling, Mutopia 3, 2019, silver PVC, MDM and on wall and floor, 700 cm x 2,70 cm x 300 cm, Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia. Photo: Milenko Savovic
Claudia Chaseling, Radiationscape, 2018, aluminium, egg tempera and oil on wall, floor and canvas, 360 x 1000 x 250 cm, Art in Buildings 55 5th Avenue space (Union Square), New York City, USA. Photo: Sol Hashemi.
Claudia Chaseling, Involution, 2018, aluminium, egg tempera and oil on wall, floor and canvas, 260 x 400 x 800 cm, Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
radiationscape. Photo: Studio Claudia Chaseling.
Claudia Chaseling, Future told me she has a headache, 2017, aluminium leaf, egg tempera and oil on wall, floor and canvas, 270 x 350 x 500 cm, Art OMI, New York, USA. Photo: Studio Claudia Chaseling.
Claudia Chaseling, Devolution, 2017, ink, aluminium and egg tempera on wall, floor and ceiling, 325 x 665 x 450 cm, Magic Beans, Berlin, Germany. Photo: Studio Claudia Chaseling.