Month: January 2023

My friends in (some) English speaking countries:

In the UK, my monograph has arrived,

https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/…/bettina-semmer/

and in the US, it’s imminent – just waiting on a big steamer for the landing. https://www.artbook.com/9783903439771.html

My German friends: Walther König Kunstbuchhandlung has it, distributing it from Cologne to other cities.

Thanks again to all contributors, helpers, and especially to Gestaltung Berlin, aka Delia Keller!

order from: https://www.vfmk.org/books/bettina-semmer

or send me a line on bettinasemmer@gmail.com

A few examples of text only paintings. They are often based on found truisms or contradictory sentences or words with double meaning (there is no time means time is scarce as well as time doesn’t exist), and involve color contrast as a “thing in itself”. So the text is a vehicle for the color and vice versa.

Still, 2006, 80 x 80 cm, acrylic on canvas

Equal to you, 2008, 50 x 180 cm, acrylic on paper

transient, 2004, ca 60 x 350 cm, cement on white wall