Anneka Klein

Kranenbarg

Anneke Klein Kranenbarg unites apparent contrasts in her work.  The connection between two and three dimensionality, simplicity and complexity evokes a special visual excitement. It is in particular the connection between contrasts that fascinates her and that she expresses  in her (serial) work.In her constructions she investigates basic shapes, often a cubic or rectangle. She extracts the parts from a compilation and arranges with those parts a new construction, a new shape. The material she uses to achieve this are two transparant plexiglass plates mounted in a blank wooden profile and black threads. She tightens the threads as well up the plate at the frontside, as up the plate at the backside and in the space in between. When the spectator moves along her work, the work seems to change. Lines and surfaces slide one over the other. The work sometimes appears to be two dimensional, sometimes three dimensional. In the drawings with black thread through semi-transparant plexiglass the three dimensional element is reduced to a few millimetres. Hereby in forming the final picture the light and schadow definite the spatial aspect.