Sinta Werner | Reverse Cut – A Matter of Degree

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Merging genres between painting, sculpture, and architecture, she unravels the historical notion of one-point-perspective and reverses the idea of illusionist painting so that the illusion of flatness in space is intentionally evoked. Within Werner’s in-situ constructions, a room is established as something eminently pictorial, creating a setting for the act of observation itself.

According to Alexander Levy, the artist explores "the perception of space in urban surroundings, playing with the relation between reality and image and the two- and three dimensionality of facade structures by creating foldings and breakings in the perspective view. For her latest work series, Sinta Werner traveled to China to examine the geometric rationalism of the functional embossed architecture of major Chinese cities. The developed photos were then sectioned into fractions, which Werner transferred onto glassy, oblique and overlapping image carriers. Through separation into vertical segments, the facade of the building, as well as the perspective in which the images were taken, are shifted and mathematical laws of the central perspective are being levered out. Simultaneous movement of the percipient induce moving of the vantage point, resulting a change in the work itself (A Matter of Degree); overlapping, compression and shifting evolves, giving the image dynamics oppositional to the static monumentality of the building."

In her recent installations and collages, the represented object (for example: an exhibition space, folded paper, broken glass) is confronted with its own image. The creation of architectonic works notably contributes to her exploration of virtual and physical boundaries.