NAME: Ann Mc Cormick
BIRTH PLACE: Dublin, Ireland
BIOGRAPHY
Ann Mc Cormick
(Born in Ireland, lives and works in Berlin)
Statement about
"Urban nature / organic structure - views on usefulness and Glück"
The recent change of direction in my work from a lanscape to an urban environment, has instinctively enabled my work to move from a flat rectangular plane to a more spatial environment.
In so doing, freeing my work from an allusion to an external reality and making the work itself become the focus of attention.
Themes such as impermanence, presciousness (discarded simple materials having their own value and beauty), the notion that structural and organic elements can feed off each other.
An organic object can become a structure and a structural object can become a raw organic object.
Order is created out of what may be considered disorder and vice versa.
I refer to artists such as Marcel Duchamp who took everyday objects and recharged them with a renewed value and poetry.
The colourfield artist Richard Diebenkorn, who dealt with the fundamental formal elements of abstract painting; pure, unmodulated areas of color; flat, two-dimensional space, in his cityscapes and ocean park paintings.
The supremetist artist Kasimir Malevich who reduced subject matter to simplified Elements; pure form and pure feeling.
I see my paintings as openings to another dimension of reality, where people, objects, contexts and emotions, the landscape of everyday life have their own truth.
In the process of expressing these truths, I am opening up my understanding of the medium aswell as of the world around me through the use of colour, form, structure and materials.
