2017 - RAÍCES
RAÍCES. This collection is a return to my origins. To the primeval state of things, of people and of the world. It is the search for my inner child, a reunion with myself and with everything that has allowed me to be who I am today, my roots. It is a look towards my deepest Self to find my own essence, that which is constructed with the mantle of the purest emotions, is to return to that corner where the true instincts flow, free from all excess, from the analytical reasoning that paralyzes, from all the artifice and superficialities that make up today's societies. It is to return to the nakedness of the soul to strip me of my protective layers. It's believing again.
RAÍCES is a break with pre-established social patterns and rules. It is to leave the world of the apparent and blinding glitter of cities to enter into the reality that hurts, the one that connects you again with nature, with the earth, with our ancestors, with the values that really matter and that for generations have allowed us to survive.
RAICES arose as a result of a trip to Peru, which has meant a before and after in my life and in the way of understanding the world. To see first-hand that, after the great floods that have occurred recently, human beings are able to do their best, even though they have lost everything, has made me revise my priorities and increase even more my pride for my Andean roots. For this reason, this collection is a tribute to my Peru and to the eagerness of its people to improve, to their capacity to assume and face reality, no matter how adverse it may be that it is always with a smile, living the present with joy, passion and valuing the irreplaceable things that really matter: The love for the family and for the people.
RAÍCES is a break with pre-established social patterns and rules. It is to leave the world of the apparent and blinding glitter of cities to enter into the reality that hurts, the one that connects you again with nature, with the earth, with our ancestors, with the values that really matter and that for generations have allowed us to survive.
RAICES arose as a result of a trip to Peru, which has meant a before and after in my life and in the way of understanding the world. To see first-hand that, after the great floods that have occurred recently, human beings are able to do their best, even though they have lost everything, has made me revise my priorities and increase even more my pride for my Andean roots. For this reason, this collection is a tribute to my Peru and to the eagerness of its people to improve, to their capacity to assume and face reality, no matter how adverse it may be that it is always with a smile, living the present with joy, passion and valuing the irreplaceable things that really matter: The love for the family and for the people.
2016 - Der Zerfall und die Fetzen
The creative universe of Karmen Kraft is anchored in the bond and concern for humanity. Man is the object of her work, captured by the liveliness of his gaze. The eye reveals the most moving moments of his existence: the passing of time, experiences, crudeness, strength, character, fears and suffering.
The artist tears apart the compositions, which at first glance appear to be comprehensible, through involuntary structures and intuitive textures. Colour and ink spots appear to the viewer, which unite and disintegrate again, moving inwards and outwards - background and figure intertwined.
Das kreative Universum von Karmen Kraft ist in der Gebundenheit und Sorge um das Menschsein verankert. Der Mensch ist Gegenstand ihres Werkes, eingefangen durch die Lebhaftigkeit seines Blicks. Das Auge enthüllt die bewegendsten Augenblicke seiner Existenz: das Vergehen der Zeit, Erfahrungen, Rohheit, Stärke, Charakter, Ängste und Leid.
Die auf den ersten Blick nachvollziehbaren Kompositionen reißt die Künstlerin durch unwillkürliche Strukturen und intuitive Texturen auseinander. Es zeigen sich dem Betrachter Farb- und Tintenflecken, die sich vereinen und wieder zerfallen, sich nach innen und nach außen bewegen – Hintergrund und Figur ineinander verflochten.
The artist tears apart the compositions, which at first glance appear to be comprehensible, through involuntary structures and intuitive textures. Colour and ink spots appear to the viewer, which unite and disintegrate again, moving inwards and outwards - background and figure intertwined.
Das kreative Universum von Karmen Kraft ist in der Gebundenheit und Sorge um das Menschsein verankert. Der Mensch ist Gegenstand ihres Werkes, eingefangen durch die Lebhaftigkeit seines Blicks. Das Auge enthüllt die bewegendsten Augenblicke seiner Existenz: das Vergehen der Zeit, Erfahrungen, Rohheit, Stärke, Charakter, Ängste und Leid.
Die auf den ersten Blick nachvollziehbaren Kompositionen reißt die Künstlerin durch unwillkürliche Strukturen und intuitive Texturen auseinander. Es zeigen sich dem Betrachter Farb- und Tintenflecken, die sich vereinen und wieder zerfallen, sich nach innen und nach außen bewegen – Hintergrund und Figur ineinander verflochten.
2014 -Blickgrenzen
"Blickgrenzen" was the first large project I did in Berlin, which gave me the opportunity to show individually in the city in 2014.
"Blickgrenzen" presents the female face absolutely centrally, with the gaze as a guideline, and places femininity at the centre of attention, which is not afraid to show emotions. The viewer tries to approach the inner, apparently open window, but the eyes of the figure keep the viewer at a distance.
Between areas with rich structures, textures and rich colours on the one hand and the sparing use of resources on the other, an intensive contrast is created that ends in polygonal shapes in which the simple lines and subtle colouring barely obscure the canvas nakedness.
The different layers of colour serve as a means of deconstructing the gaze, the geometric forms, of reducing the force and tension of the moment captured in each portrait to its essence.