Isa Dahl

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Isa Dahl (* 1965 in Ravensburg ) is a German painter.

Life

After completing her school career, Dahl began studying painting at the Stuttgart Art Academy in 1984 , which she continued with Dieter Krieg at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1991 she finished her studies.

In 1994 she founded the painter group maximal in Stuttgart , with whom she has held numerous exhibitions to this day. Dahl lives and works in Stuttgart.

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Isa Dahl became known for her characteristic coloring and glazing technique , with which she creates imaginary pictorial spaces of great luminosity and depth.

Her pictures show structures wound into braids, spirally twisted or nested one on top of the other, reminiscent of biomorphic forms, plant fibers or blades of grass. On closer inspection, however, these structures are nothing more than brush strokes and therefore do not thematize nature, but rather the artistic means of form and color. A very unique visual quality and visual presence emerges. The objects in the picture seem objective and yet at the same time abstract.

In the center of many pictures you can see a kind of "void" that focuses the viewer's gaze and directs it into the depths. The depth of space is also created by Isa Dahl's characteristic glaze technique, the superimposition of the finest layers of paint - and the mutual superimposition of spatial structures. These structures become blurred towards the image background as in photographic recordings. In this way a perspective, dynamic spatial body is created.

This temporal element is evident in the complex arrangement, the virtual dynamics of shapes and structures. Even if painting as a genre itself is immobile, i.e. static, in these works you can feel a barely restrained urge to move, a vital brush stroke that marks the fine line between stability and decay. Isa Dahl explores the spatiotemporal image continuum through shapes and colors.

Isa Dahl addresses unstable states of equilibrium, which are caused by the paradoxical fixation of fleeting moments in the classic medium of the panel painting .

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personal data
SURNAME Dahl, Isa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg