To the sun to the light One of the distinctive qualities of Solweig de Barry's painting (*1987
in Strasbourg lives and works in Berlin) is the balance between suggestion and formulation
conceptual distance and intuition between representation and abstraction. The exhibition at
the Kunstverein Heilbronn is the first extensive presentation of her work in an institution to
date and includes works on canvas and a glass painting on the large window front of the
Kunstverein. There are impressive examples over the centuries such as the cathedrals of
Chartres or Amiens the Notre Dame du Ronchamp chapel by Le Corbusier or the stained glass
windows by contemporary artists such as Gerhard Richter in Tholey or more recently Olafur
Eliasson in Greifswald to name but a few. What they all have in common however is that color
and glass are firmly connected through the technical process of production. Solweig de Barry
sought to find a way to realize this painting on glass panes in situ with paint that has the
same translucent quality as classic glass art because most commercially available paints
applied to glass panes actually cast a grey or black shadow on the floor. The process for glass
painting that she has now developed by experimenting with paints and varnishes opens up the
possibility of extending two-dimensional painting into the space working with reflections
and repetitions while integrating the movement of the sun and the light. Exhibition:
Kunstverein Heilbronn 18 5 - 8 9 2024
