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Holiday Inn (03.18), Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 61 cm, 2003
Karina Bisch
Karina Bisch's work is noteworthy in its apparent peace with modernist principles. There is no question of developing a third allegorical path to move beyond the so-called abstraction - figuration duality. The artist prefers to examine the modalities of constituting forms in a given social, cultural and historical context, either past or present. In this way, "the sign" becomes form again, and is sometimes imbued with a certain nostalgia crossbred with contemporary references.

Her paintings and sculptural works, thus subtly alluding  to architectural structures, ornament and the Modernist tradition, have recently been featured in solo exhibitions at the Rijksakademie and PS Project in Amsterdam, Konsortium Düsseldorf, dépendance in Brussels and Galerie Marcel Duchamp in Châteauroux, France. Bisch is currently represented by Nosbaum & Reding in Luxembourg.