Code Rood

De kleine kapel | Arnhem | 29 april 2017

In Carina Ellemers’ canvases, the textile support forms the painting itself. A credit to Mondrian, the founder of modernism, the horizontals and verticals are also decisive here. But here no absolute relations between horizontal and vertical, here they are not at right angles to each other, here the canvas itself with its supple character is leading. The canvas is more than the support, the lines are determined by the threads of the warp and weft, resulting in a sinuous supple linework. Cloth is an inspiration of a flexible union between vertical warp and horizontal weft; a geometric abstract pas de deux….

Curator : Brieke Drost