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BETTINA CARL: ARTISTIC STATEMENT

BETTINA CARL: ZU MEINER ARBEITSWEISE

BETTINA CARL: Something else I wanted to say but you don't necessarily have to read

BETTINA CARL: Was ich noch sagen wollte, Sie aber nicht unbedingt lesen müssen

STEFAN NEUNER: The Big Sky (Diminished).  Notes on Bettina Carl's Drawings

STEFAN NEUNER: The Big Sky (verkleinert).  Bemerkungen zur Zeichnung bei Bettina Carl

KEN PRATT: Bettina Carl - Strumming for Martyrdom.

BETTINA CARL: ARTISTIC STATEMENT
My art work mainly consists of drawings. In installations, occasionally objects, texts or photographs add to the works on paper. I consider art to be a contribution to the semiotic systems whose functions are being determined by social structures. Maybe art works are the commentaries nobody asked for, and maybe that is precisely what will guarantee art's freedom as much as it will confine its impact. I am fascinated by digressions, contradictions and superimpositions. Thus my formal vocabulary is clearly subjective. In my drawings, I aim to reconstruct clusters of thoughts and of perceptions, fugitive architectures of memories that inevitably fail to fit in syntactical structures. In order to persist, to be seen, eventually any image has to achieve a certain balance. In my works, however, this balance remains precarious: an ephemeral halt of restless elements that are about to disintegrate any time, moving on to become something else, a different formation.