Tina Gillen

The paintings of the Luxembourg artist Tina Gillen present figurative worlds offset by abstract forms. The back-and-forth between these two dimensions goes hand in hand with a shrewd balance between a great mastery of the pictorial vocabulary and a certain "slackening" in the execution. As her point of departure, the artist often takes photographs coming from different contexts - images found in publications and on the Internet, postcards... - which she subjects to a process of abstraction: “I remove elements to almost paradoxically achieve a certain readability. I try to accentuate the abstraction and only keep the strict minimum.” The exhibition at Mudam, presenting a new large-scale installation, is focused on the connection between the natural and artificial elements in Tina Gillen's work.

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Tina Gillen : Katrina, 2008, Collection Mudam Luxembourg, Donation 2009 - Marie-Anne et Jacques Loesch © Photo : Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg