CORINNA HOLTHUSEN
Synthese

Oil Paint on Photography. French artist Florian Eymann and the Hamburg artist Corinna Holthusen.

This international cooperation shows the morbidity of our ideals of beauty and explores the border areas between artistic genres and media. Thus Eymann's paintings seem to reach the core of the person: The supposed faces of those portrayed appear distorted, sometimes ghostly or violently deformed. The oil paint, applied with brush, spatula and fingers, seems to peel out of the dark background of the picture, breaking up the physiognomy of the face beyond recognition. Sensations and psychological abysses overlay the masquerade of classical portrait painting.

This profound ambivalence, which deconstructs artificially created ideals, is also reflected in the works of Corinna Holthusen. Through a complex image editing process, the conceptual photographer digitally superimposes a large number of physiognomies, creating new idealized faces.

Author
Conceptual photographer Corinna Holthusen is known for her ambivalent portraits that hold up a mirror to today's ideals of beauty and the artificiality associated with them.

Her large-scale representations of the body and face, in which the focus is mostly on the mouth and eyes, raise questions about perfection, death, and eternity. Fields of tension between fascination and shudder arise. In a first step, Holthusen photographs her models in the studio, but creates new, idealized photoprint portraits from scratch by digitally superimposing different physiognomies. Holthusen then works on the photoprints created by the complex image editing process with acrylic paint, spray paint, or liquid glue mixtures, breaking up the previous idealized smoothness to some extent through haptic intervention.

Corinna Holthusen lives and works in Hamburg. After studying art in Florence, she studied photography in Milan and specialized in image processing.

Website
www.corinna-holthuen.de

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