Whether Ines Beyer is tracing the private sphere with filigree embroidery works, the relationship between text and image in reworkings of newspaper pages or the persuasive power of the image itself in her "Bauteilsätze", whether she is trying to get closer to the mystery of the grid with her series of experiments on image structures, Ines Beyer's work is always also an act of self-observation, an exploration of the connection between the artist's ego and the genesis of the work.
"It is the combination of complex content and unconventional, aesthetically convincing pictorial inventions in variously combined techniques that makes Ines Beyer's artistic works so extraordinary. They are able to attract the viewer's attention in a very subtle way at the first moment of encounter and encourage them to question the works in a more fundamental way. If they continue to engage with them, they will not be released from their intensive involvement with the work so quickly."
- KONSTANZE RUDERT -
After Ines Beyer became known to a wider public in 2015 with her participation in the group exhibition "Disegno. Drawing Art for the 21st Century" at the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden in 2015, the Leonhardi-Museum is showing "Handlungsspielraum", the artist's first solo exhibition with around 60 works from the years 2000 - 2017 with important loans from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden and the Kunstfonds des Freistaates Sachsen. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive catalogue.
Dr Michael Hering, Director of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, spoke at the opening on Friday, 1 December at 8 pm.
The artist was present at the opening.
The exhibition and catalogue were funded by the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen.
Catalogue
A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.