The Leonhardi-Museum presents a selection of drawings on paper and canvas as well as processed lithographs by the Dresden artist Jana Morgenstern from 2007 to 2012. The central and recurring art-theoretical theme is the contour, which for Jana Morgenstern represents a conscious formal simplification. This return to the line opens up a wide range of creative possibilities for the artist, which she explores on changing supports and with different techniques in a serial approach. In this way, delicate, filigree networks of lines are grouped together to form new shapes or amorphous bands that cover the picture surface right up to the edge.
"It is questions of objectivity and abstraction that are being negotiated here. The contour is the conceptual link between these two poles. In the oscillation between them, however, a different way of dealing with landscape emerges as an inexhaustible potential for form, from which a new vocabulary emerges."
Quotes: AGNES MATTHIAS "Contours"
(catalogue for the exhibition at the Leonhardi Museum, 2013)
Agnes Matthias spoke at the opening on Friday, 18 January 2013.
Catalogue
A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.