the artist statement

My formats are abstract combinations. Paper covers compositions of oil on canvas, line drawings and adhesive tape; lines in pencil are interchanged with lines in thread, which have a stronger and more playful effect than the drawn lines themselves; they add a third dimension and hugely augment the way I am able to portray the reality and universal interrelations that I perceive.

I work to very few rules. I neither want to consider whether the Chinese rice paper with which I prefer to create collages is suitable for the purpose, nor whether the water colours combine nicely with oil colours, nor whether it is usual to cover the work with varnish at the end instead of mixing it with colours and using it as a paint. On the contrary: I do not want the paper that I use to be suitable for oil paints, nor do I want clear-cut edges with which to create a collage to occur; this enables new forms to be created that require being answered in another part of the work. I want the pen with which I work not to be suitable for writing on the background I've chosen to work with, and I am especially happy when the painting surface I'm working on rejects the colour I have put on it and creates its own pattern to which I have to react somewhere else.

My inspiration could originally be found in the social aspects of life and in everything that was human; however, since then I have drawn my inspiration from my direct environment, from music, overheard parts of discussions, daily news and not least from my own life. Irony and humour are always important. Explanations about the content can only be found in the titles; there are seldom any additional clues, sewn or written, regarding the content in the work itself.

(Berlin, Feb. 2012)

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Her first public presentations took place in alternative venues such as the off-space Hinterkonti gallery or Studio Ladezone Freihalten in Hamburg where Barthoi first showed small-scale drawings with oil, graphite and wax as well as installative works from gauze, wax and wood. In 2004 she starts to add threads into her formats, progressively working on bigger sizes. The smaller works on paper were shown at Pocket Utopia gallery in New York ("The Pierogi-Show", 2007). In the same year she beginns to concentrate on large-scale work on canvas and paper.

Claudia Barthoi was born 1969 as Claudia Corinne Siegert in Munich, Southern Germany. She attended the School Of Fine Arts followed by a School for Graphic Design where she earned her Diploma. Upon completion of graduation she immediately began to work in advertising, after 10 years having been honored with national and international awards (lastly with a Lion at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes 2004) and exhausting her goals in advertising, she decided to finally pursue her vision of becoming an artist and focus on her development in fine arts exclusively. To commence this transition she changed her name to Claudia Barthoi in 2002. Since developing her sculpture and drawings additionally she has studied painting at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in 2001 and 2002 with Prof. Jong Sun Suh, Director at College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University and Sati Zech, Painter, Berlin and enrolled at University of Fine Arts Berlin Weissensee/Germany as guest student (instructor: Prof. Hanns Schimansky) in 2003 an 2004. She attended the Cooper Union for The Advancement Of Science And Art, New York, in 2004.

Lastly Barthoi was presented in a solo show at Jarmuschek + Partner gallery, Berlin ("Private View", 2009) and the groupshow "Another Marriage" (2011, curated by Maja Škerbot) as well as "Drei Wünsche frei" with Carsten Weitzmann and Jakob Roepke (2011). Claudia Barthoi presently lives and works in Berlin. For current information please contact the artist.

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The section "things I see" contains of random shots. It reflects impressions of outlines and structures which abruptly seem obvious to me.

I would like to express my special thanks to the professional photographer Matthias Koslik for showing me how to take the pictures for the backgrounds I used, and for his patience and tolerance in all my nagging when something did not seem to work out immediately. I also would like to thank his colleague Philipp Jester for being so helpful with his camera.

The section 'work' contains some downsampled images origining from the upmost high quality scans by the company recom in Ostfildern/Southern-Germany, they own that amazing scanner for large-scale artwork and they have my highest recommendations.

© Claudia Barthoi 2012

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