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Jill Baroff, Floa-ng Line Drawings (Scissorkick), 2011Oil pastel on Japanese Gampi paper, 81 x 81 cm © Galerie Chrisdan Lethert, CologneGalerie Chrisdan LethertDirector : Chrisdan LethertGallery creadon’s year: 2006www.chrisdanlethert.cominfo@chrisdanlethert.com+49 221 3560590Antwerpener Str. 450672 CologneFocus ardst : Jill Baroff, born in 1954Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Nelleke Beltjens, Imi Knoebel, Daniel LergonPrices of the works: from 2 000 € to 7 500 €The drawings by New York based ardst Jill Baroff (born in 1954) unite conceptual coherence with a high sensidvity towards materials. Pardcularly concise are the circular “Tide Drawings” on Japanese Gampi paper. The hypnodc form of the lines circling a common center is given a precise content and modvadon. The “Tide Drawings” are the visual transladon of the dde levels at various coastal locadons over various periods of observadon. The ardst takes hundreds and hundreds of measurements from the Internet, and using a compass, transfers them onto paper so that respecdvely individual paherns of concentradon come about. In other words: the diachronic sequence of the dde levels is put into a synchronic visual form. Like waves of water emanadng outwards, or the growth rings of trees, the opdcally vibradng “Tide Drawings” show us the passage of dme. In doing so, the circular form indicates more the cyclic nodons of dme in Asian cultures than the linear western nodon, and it is in keeping with the perpetual repeddve changes of ebb and flow connected with the lunar cycle.Presse mappe I Seite 47