Harmony in Chaos *
Elke Foltz is a french Painter and Visual artist born in 1990, half senegalese and half german, based in Berlin.
Enquiries, collaborations and atelier visit by appointment :
elkefoltz@gmail.com
"How would you define your current painting?
My painting is a search for balance in a constant chaos. For the past two years, I have oriented my work on a series of paintings that focuses on the theme of harmony and renewal through abstraction. I am exploring this by means of colours, shapes and fragments of canvases that I collect from my previous works. While my approach to painting has generally been based on intuition, the incorporation of collage brings into the creative process a deeper kind of work centred on composition and reflection. My painting shows my vision of life. Each shape, line and colour on the canvas cannot live without the other. All the elements aim to be in harmony and in perpetual renewal in spite of the prevailing disorder. "
Interview for @piecewithartist ~ piecewithartist.com
"What are your motivation forces? And the artists who have been and are an influence for you?
My main motivation is to know that my art can talk to someone and bring a positive energy. Especially if a person feels like they don't belong out there. The lack of diversity and inclusivity in galleries and big institutions gives me the motivation to continue on my way. As a mixed race woman artist it’s important to me to take part in a change. Of course, creating is also a very personal commitment.
For me the privilege is to have a somewhere where I can feel truly free to be transparent and honest without fear. It also helps me to take distance from and understand the world we live in. I think that art in general can offer so many different perspectives and interpretations of life, I find it beautiful and important to be able to express and to share it!
So many artists have influenced or are still influencing my art such as as the Senegalese painter Ndoye Douts, the illustrator Brecht Evens, the street artist Kashink, the painters Helen Frankenthaler and Jean-Michel Basquiat, more recently the choreograph Yoann Bourgeois and the writer Toni Morrison and many more."
Shows
Salon d'illustration contemporaine : Les puces de l'illustration, Paris, FR. Dec 2019
Collective Show : Stamtich, "Les bonnes Résolutions". Lyon, FR. Jan 2017
Collective Show : United dead artists, "Danse Mort & Veuves Joyeuses". Nancy, FR. Nov 2015
Collective Show : Squame / Slow Galerie" Mail art exhibition", Paris, FR. Sept. 2014
Solo Show : Bookstore Ombres Blanches, Toulouse, FR.Mar. 2014
Published
STUDIO DIMANCHE
Magazine d'illustration - Édition spéciale pour le Secrétariat
Général des Affaires Européennes - SGAE, 2018.
TOISON MAG
Toison #2, Viril issue, 2015
REVUE AaOo, sang d'encre edition
Illustrations "Ennui et Volupté" published in AaOo #6, 2014
SQUAME/ECAILLES
Squame #7 - The mail art issue, 2014
64 Kamasutra Artbook, 2014
Squame #5 - The erotic issue, 2012
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