Martine Johanna’s “Surrender Dorothy” at Koch x Bos.
Opening on Saturday, May 9th, 2020 at Koch x Bos in Amsterdam is artist Martine Johanna’s phenomenal solo exhibition, “Surrender Dorothy.”
Johanna’s new exhibition is an ode to love, sexuality, desire, surrender and romance.
“Surrender Dorothy” stands for the release of reason and surrender to passion. This connects with loving yourself; a complex love that is often overshadowed by self-hatred. The desire for romantic love, which is imprinted from an early age especially for girls, is seemingly the ultimate solution to this self-hatred. A romanticization that you discover for the first time as a child through fairy tales, romantic stories and films, is deeply rooted in the idea of what love will be like.
True love, however, is a mirror, a genuine open embrace of yourself with all your shadow sides. Love heals, frees, inspires, connects and devours.
“My vision,” says Johanna, “the creative process and its ritual are the most important to me in my work. I myself photograph models that I then digitally put into compositions and abstract, I use this as a rough example, the final result is always different, and often I first make drawings to examine the composition so that I know better whether it works as a painting.”
“I am a fast painter and often work for days and obsessively on 1 work until it is finished, hence the choice for acrylic which dries quickly with high pigment values so that it has a good color intensity. I work in layers and lines in a broadly saturated and contrasting color spectrum.”
The exhibition will be on view until May 30th, 2020.
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