As an artist, Barbara Camilla Tucholski takes on the role of a bystander with an intense observation and an eye for details. For her new exhibition “Streets”, planned exclusively for Gallery Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, she will be showing five sequential drawing cycles, which emerged from different locations of biographical significance to the artist: Loitz, Ovelgönne, Rom, Wien, Berlin.
acrylic on canvas, 130 × 200 cm
acrylic on canvas, 130 × 200 cm
Her drawings alternate between the partly edgy, partly smooth, precise lines, forming delicate networks and curves. With only a few strokes the observed comes to life through pencil on paper, with pointed precision that reveals its essence. Tucholski’s drawings are the embodiment of her ways of seeing and perceiving; they are the outcome of her bearing witness to the complex thematic links between space, homeland and identity. The artist develops in her drawings a unique way of seeing, leaving the established central perspective behind in favour of a multi-layered connection between sites and vanishing points. The exhibited drawings in Streets show a direct and intimate personal bond with space and time as a counterpoint to the detached and impersonal virtual reality of the digital age.
acrylic on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
Barbara Camilla Tucholski was born in Loitz, Western Pomerania, in 1947. The division of Germany forced the family to flee to the West. The artist studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) and at the University of Bonn.
She exhibited, inter alia, at the Albertina in Vienna, at the Drawing Center New York, at the art collection Schwerin, at the Kiel art museum, at the Bonner Kunstverein, the Morat Institute at Freiburg, the art museum Rostock, the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and at the Fiac Picardie, Amiens. Her works are represented in numerous exhibitions.
acrylic on canvas, 130 × 200 cm