March 6 - April 26, 2025; Reception for the artist Thursday, March 6th, 6-8PM
When Naomie Kremer approaches a blank canvas with a loaded brush, she cannot predict the first move she'll make. The act is pure impulse. An apt word for this creative act is "duende." Originally used in relation to flamenco, the term was most memorably defined by the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who called it "a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment."
In the spirit of Garcia Lorca's writing and in recognition of Kremer's performative approach to painting, Modernism is pleased to present "Duende," a selection of fifteen paintings and one video that show the artistic power of impulse guided by flawless technique grounded in conceptual ingenuity and theoretical rigor.
Kremer first started to grapple with the theoretical problems underlying this new body of work while studying art history at Sussex University. Reading Wassily Kandinsky's "Point and Line to Plane," Kremer discovered an approach to abstraction premised on linear dynamism. The dynamism Kandinsky described coincided with her way of creating abstract spaces through movement. What distinguishes the current work conceptually, she explains is that she's conjuring "stories and events within those places." She conjures them instinctively, not fully knowing their significance.
Both literally and metaphorically, line is Kremer's throughline, and also connects her work to the graphic duende of artists ranging from Henri Matisse to Ellsworth Kelly.
In "Theory and Play of the Duende," Lorca wrote that the duende "draws close to places where forms fuse in a yearning beyond visible expression." That yearning (which Matisse called "the desire of the line") is the origin of Kremer's new abstract paintings. The destination is in the imagination of each viewer for whom they make meaning.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO A RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH FROM 6-8PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
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When Naomie Kremer approaches a blank canvas with a loaded brush, she cannot predict the first move she'll make. The act is pure impulse. An apt word for this creative act is "duende." Originally used in relation to flamenco, the term was most memorably defined by the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who called it "a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment."
In the spirit of Garcia Lorca's writing and in recognition of Kremer's performative approach to painting, Modernism is pleased to present "Duende," a selection of fifteen paintings and one video that show the artistic power of impulse guided by flawless technique grounded in conceptual ingenuity and theoretical rigor.
Kremer first started to grapple with the theoretical problems underlying this new body of work while studying art history at Sussex University. Reading Wassily Kandinsky's "Point and Line to Plane," Kremer discovered an approach to abstraction premised on linear dynamism. The dynamism Kandinsky described coincided with her way of creating abstract spaces through movement. What distinguishes the current work conceptually, she explains is that she's conjuring "stories and events within those places." She conjures them instinctively, not fully knowing their significance.
Both literally and metaphorically, line is Kremer's throughline, and also connects her work to the graphic duende of artists ranging from Henri Matisse to Ellsworth Kelly.
In "Theory and Play of the Duende," Lorca wrote that the duende "draws close to places where forms fuse in a yearning beyond visible expression." That yearning (which Matisse called "the desire of the line") is the origin of Kremer's new abstract paintings. The destination is in the imagination of each viewer for whom they make meaning.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO A RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH FROM 6-8PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
March 6 - April 26, 2025; Reception for the artist Thursday, March 6th, 6-8PM
When Naomie Kremer approaches a blank canvas with a loaded brush, she cannot predict the first move she'll make. The act is pure impulse. An apt word for this creative act is "duende." Originally used in relation to flamenco, the term was most memorably defined by the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who called it "a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment."
In the spirit of Garcia Lorca's writing and in recognition of Kremer's performative approach to painting, Modernism is pleased to present "Duende," a selection of fifteen paintings and one video that show the artistic power of impulse guided by flawless technique grounded in conceptual ingenuity and theoretical rigor.
Kremer first started to grapple with the theoretical problems underlying this new body of work while studying art history at Sussex University. Reading Wassily Kandinsky's "Point and Line to Plane," Kremer discovered an approach to abstraction premised on linear dynamism. The dynamism Kandinsky described coincided with her way of creating abstract spaces through movement. What distinguishes the current work conceptually, she explains is that she's conjuring "stories and events within those places." She conjures them instinctively, not fully knowing their significance.
Both literally and metaphorically, line is Kremer's throughline, and also connects her work to the graphic duende of artists ranging from Henri Matisse to Ellsworth Kelly.
In "Theory and Play of the Duende," Lorca wrote that the duende "draws close to places where forms fuse in a yearning beyond visible expression." That yearning (which Matisse called "the desire of the line") is the origin of Kremer's new abstract paintings. The destination is in the imagination of each viewer for whom they make meaning.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO A RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH FROM 6-8PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
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When Naomie Kremer approaches a blank canvas with a loaded brush, she cannot predict the first move she'll make. The act is pure impulse. An apt word for this creative act is "duende." Originally used in relation to flamenco, the term was most memorably defined by the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who called it "a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment."
In the spirit of Garcia Lorca's writing and in recognition of Kremer's performative approach to painting, Modernism is pleased to present "Duende," a selection of fifteen paintings and one video that show the artistic power of impulse guided by flawless technique grounded in conceptual ingenuity and theoretical rigor.
Kremer first started to grapple with the theoretical problems underlying this new body of work while studying art history at Sussex University. Reading Wassily Kandinsky's "Point and Line to Plane," Kremer discovered an approach to abstraction premised on linear dynamism. The dynamism Kandinsky described coincided with her way of creating abstract spaces through movement. What distinguishes the current work conceptually, she explains is that she's conjuring "stories and events within those places." She conjures them instinctively, not fully knowing their significance.
Both literally and metaphorically, line is Kremer's throughline, and also connects her work to the graphic duende of artists ranging from Henri Matisse to Ellsworth Kelly.
In "Theory and Play of the Duende," Lorca wrote that the duende "draws close to places where forms fuse in a yearning beyond visible expression." That yearning (which Matisse called "the desire of the line") is the origin of Kremer's new abstract paintings. The destination is in the imagination of each viewer for whom they make meaning.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO A RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH FROM 6-8PM
Free
Presented by MODERNISM INC..
show less
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