Mady Brown
2003: ANNONCES
Her subject is the "classified ad", which often stands out due to its bizarre formulations and cryptic abbreviations. The illustration of such texts leads to coloristically simple and deliberately awkward compositions.
Memories of the "kidney table romance" of the fifties and sixties are awakened in the face of the German "national plant, the rubber tree".
The visualization of past forms of seeing through aperspectively constructed objects is sometimes touching. In Mady Braun's artistry, a staid living atmosphere and a fierce promise of happiness are encoded.
In his introduction, Dr. Hans-Peter Bestehorn located the paintings against the backdrop of omnipresent advertising. The choice of subject and the deliberate use of naive forms make the structures of our consumer society transparent. Konrad Winter pointed out that the naive construction, such as the "inverted perspective", was part of the artist's stylistic device.
