Susanne Wehmer

SUSANNE WEHMER (Germany, 1973).
Untitled, 2020.
Oil on papyrus glued on a wooden plate.
Signed on the back.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 32,5 x 32,5 cm.
Susanne Wehmer was born in Bad Urach. Lives and works in Barcelona. Graduated in Painting at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, she completed a master's degree in Video Game creation, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Solo exhibitions: 2011 Ferrán Cano Gallery, Barcelona; 2007 Ferrán Cano Gallery, Palma de Mallorca; 2006 "Some of Too Much", T40 Gallery, Düsseldorf; 2005 "Picture Files", Siboney Gallery, Santander; 2004 "All Asian TGP", Espai 0, Fundació "la Caixa", Tarragona; 2003 Siboney Gallery (with Berta Jayo and Abilio Lope); 2002 "Scandalous Velvet", Laberinto Gallery, Granada; 2000 "Contemporary Airs", Amasté Gallery, Bilbao; 1998 Espace Commines, Paris; Galérie Sacha Tarassoff, Paris; Galerie T40, Düsseldorf; "Strawberry Vanilla", Casa de Cultura, Córdoba (Mexico). Group Exhibitions: 2014 Espai B Gallery, Barcelona; 2013 Espai d'Art Astillero, Barcelona; 2012 Galeriá Ferrán Cano; 2010 Addaya Centre d'Art Contemporani, Alaró; 2009 Nou Espai, Ferrán Cano Gallery (Barcelona); 2008, 2007 Art Cologne Palma de Mallorca (Ferrán Cano); 2006 Toronto TIAF (Galerie T40); 2005 and 2004 ARCO 2005 (Siboney Gallery); Scope New York (Galerie T40); MiArt (Galerie Frank Pages, Baden-Baden, Germany); Art Karlsruhe (Galerie Frank Pages). In his pictorial work, Wehmer uses images from his everyday environment, borrowed from today's consumer society, which he transfers to industrial media such as methacrylate or aluminum. He generates and works the images on the computer, but when painting he uses the long process of the traditional oil painting technique, with an almost hyperrealistic result. In this way he recreates his daily universe through painting, adding his personal vision to it. The result is oil paintings with an absolutely smooth and satin surface, similar to that of magazine covers. Ice cream balls, Japanese advertisements, plastics and vinyl, airplane food and the most glittering images of today's synthetic life make up the references that Susanne Wehmer translates into paint. A surrendered declaration of love to dream worlds through the internet and modernly exotic icons. You will have to see to believe." (Joaquín Peña-Toro).