Marion Thieme
The art of Marion Thieme (Zeppelinheim, Germany 1959) is a profound interpretation of interstices, the spaces between the things, of colors, objects and spaces.
She defies linguistic description, historical narrative or interpretation, which have only a secondary importance in her work.
Her art is centered on painting and she is interested in formal and conceptual issues. She works with superpositions of color and other transparent materials such as plexiglas. In her series called “Coagula” she inverts the terms of interior and exterior and offers a sculptural discourse of the “body,” an expansion of the pictorial process. These works are the opposite of her parallel bi-dimensional pieces on paper, where she uses very liquid acrylics, Chinese ink or similar media, and where the gestural aspect assumes maximum importance and becomes a central motif.
Parallel to her work as an independent artist, since the end of the 90s, Thieme has imparted master classes and courses on her own, in both Germany and Spain, in a variety of settings, including participation in a group in Königstein/Frankfurt, in the German School in Madrid, in her former studio in Madrid and her current space in the village of Munilla (La Rioja, Spain). The method she evolved to transmit her knowledge is based on criteria which assign a special value to the most efficient ways of employing a variety of media coupled with the ability for developing a focused consciousness and awareness while working.
