Elke Krystufek - Harmonie 2

As in Krystufek’s previous work, she brings a combination of insight and subjectivity to the genre of figurative art. Possessing a humorous and sometime ironic eye Krystufek plays with the viewer and the dynamics of looking at a painting. The texts which are employed in some of her works could be seen as poetry lyrics and musical scores as well as key words addressing subjectivity from a musical angle. The harmony that exists in the works is similar to tonal symphonies and the string theories which is then sent tail-spinning into chaotic dissonance by the over-subjectification the masses apply to more contemporary art.

Elke Silvia Krystufek’s work challenges our assumptions about various media (’classical’ painting, video, sculpture, installation) by providing a sort of mathematical description of duality and energy which are used simultaneously to describe the tension in her works. Truth in her representation is subject to change, therefore the approach to creating “Harmonie 2″ was for a change, not for an art historical, but more a movement in between the works and the exhibitions titled “Harmonie”. Krystufek says: “Think of quantum dynamics. Mechanics. Motion. We shift ideas in a second. What sticks, what lasts in a work is truly subjective.”

Elke Krystufek
Harmonie 2