Umbrella Kid

The artistic work

After an intense occupation with architecture, landscape and figurative subjects Sabine Wenig
is now developing a new method of painting.

"Umbrella Kid" is a serial work which started in 2002. The artist is combining digitally
transferred and manipulated photo-material with traditional painting techniques on wood.

The inspiration of this sequence has been a 38 year-old photo (in black and white) which
is showing the artist as a little child on the coast of the Baltic Sea protecting herself with
a big black umbrella against the heavy weather.

Wenig scanned this picture and manipulated it many times to create new forms and fragments
for the following rearrangement of her childhood.

The painted colours and the photo-material are arranged in numerous layers and evoke transparency
and infinity at the same time.

"Umbrella Kid" is no reconstruction - it is a kind of new creation of a past moment. Rotating
between what is over and the present - including visions of what might have been - the artist
tries to surpass (cross over ?) the instability of limited moments.

Also the frameless presentation of the paintings is supposed to underline the infinitude and openness
of their formal (and also mental) space.

The works measure between 30 x 30 cm (on wooden panels) and 110 x 150 cm (mixed media/
inkjet-prints on canvas).