”Mystic Forest” is part of the ”Forest” series. This work can actually serve to represent our current pandemic situation. Nature invigorates us and restores our energy. We learn to appreciate and respect nature as a counterbalance to de digital world. Above all, we rediscover and reaffirm the importance of protecting nature sustainably.
Sonja Kalb
Germany
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She was born in Stuttgart. Studied Textiles and Design (Engineering Diploma) amongst other Things.
She lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Her paintings are found in renowned private and company collections.
Permanent Art Collections:
2020 Haegeumgang/Yukyung Art Museum, Geoje, South Korea and the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf, Germany.
2020 Woman Art Award in Cooperation with UNESCO, Rome
2018 Best Abstract Artwork, Italia Award 21st Century Art, Biennale Chianciano.
In 2019 she had the Special Mention for Excellence, Great Britain Award 21st Century Art, Biennale London.
Sonja Kalb focuses on the essentials – the colors and how they flow in her abstract expressionist painting. The artist consciously excludes any use of concrete representation. Color contrast, composition lines
and surfaces, surface structures and textures are all elements which Sonja Kalb uses to design her
“color weaves”. The flowing interweavements in Sonja Kalb’s artworks invite the observer to let his
thoughts wander and find expression in his own unique conceptions. Sonja Kalb’s artworks are continually exhibited at different solo and group exhibitions, as well as at art fairs in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain,Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Tokyo,Turkey, Iran and the USA.
”The intensely colourful paintings of Sonja Kalb generate an immediate suction on the canvas
dragging the spectator into her works depth activating his or her entire senses. Her paintings
can almost be tasted, felt, scented and heart.”
Stefanie Lucci
”Sonja Kalb’s entrancing opuses have the relentless capability to offer the viewer the illusion of utter transportation to realms of mysterious oceanic depths or ethereal journeys traversing a cosmos of thought and expression.Kalb’s abstract creations truly reflect her sincere affinity with the natural world, through which
she shares an erudite understanding of the environment that she presents with resounding aplomb.”
Timothy Warrington