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16.09.2012<br />
www.berlin-artparasites.com<br />
PRESSESPIEGEL 2012<br />
THE ART OF IMPERSONATING DE<br />
Berlin Art Parasites / Nathalia Duarte online<br />
Preview Berlin: Interview with Christiane Seiffert<br />
THE ART OF IMPERSONATING<br />
No wonder Christiane Seiffert’s art work is so funny, she is funny herself! We got an interview with<br />
this creative artist who let her inner kid out. Take a look!<br />
Sunday has arrived - but not in the form of an end-of-the-week-respite - today is the final day of<br />
Berlin Art Week and in only a couple of hours Preview Berlin Art Fair will be closing it‘s doors at<br />
Tempelhof Airport. You still have a chance to get in and catch some of the best emerging artwork,<br />
or we can offer you some much needed comic relief through Preview artist Christiane Seiffert. Christiane<br />
Seiffert’s work, exhibited in the Vincenz Sala booth at Preview Berlin, is all about recreating<br />
postcard images using herself and a bunch of crazy objects: An amusing but also dangerous work<br />
sometimes!<br />
BAPS: Where did this idea of taking these photos come from?<br />
CS: I love looking at things. I remember being a kid and staring at something for half an hour<br />
until I could see an interesting form. My mother was an abstract painter and I have also always<br />
looked at her paintings until I could see a figure. And then, twenty five years later I was supposed<br />
to make an exhibition and I remembered this and decided to finally do what I really could do -<br />
which is seeing faces in houses, for example.<br />
BAPS: When you see these things, or have an artistic vision, do you ask people if they also see<br />
them?<br />
CS: No. They have to come to their own conclusions when the work is ready. But I do ask myself if<br />
those things I see are really there, or if I am just a bit crazy…<br />
BAPS: We found your work really funny, do you mean it to be comic?<br />
CS: No, I just want to put things out there. But I get that it is comic in a way, because translation<br />
normally is something strange and funny. I know the viewers normally find it amusing!<br />
BAPS: Does anything funny or suprising normally happens during the process?<br />
CS: Well, when I did the bird postcard for example I had to be in the top of a step-ladder so I<br />
would leave a telephone close to it on the floor. This way if I felt down, I could immediately call<br />
the doctor!<br />
Thanks for the laughs and the amusing art, Christiane! Check out her work before Preview Berlin<br />
closes this evening!
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