Even their logo is mysterious. and reveals much simultaneously. Because the letters AA meet not only the function of an abbreviation of the Berlin artist group Artists Anonymous, they also betray a fundamental principle of its work, the reversal of form and color. Because unlike the emblem of the Association unnamed Trunk addict you can see first a large white "A", within a black rectangle is placed, and then, right next to it, and a black upside-down "A" in a white rectangle.
Just as consistently, the group of artists since its inception in September 2001 with the creation of their image before the worlds. There are pictures on current topics such as drug abuse, hunger and war, whose color repeatedly by technical procedures in its opposite be converted from slide-positive for X-ray-like painting and then reversed to a photo of the painting, which they call after-image. They let the viewer, almost the world through different eyes. The amount of information is not changed, they will only be recoded. From every point of a negative is clearly regulated by a process corresponding to its positive counterpart, and vice versa. "We are so abstract," says Maya, the only woman artist in the trio, "and after-image when we mix with light as with a brush."
Their distinctive body of work has already been in her first solo exhibition in London to enthusiastic professionals, including art experts from the Saatchi Gallery and the Deutsche Bank. Since it is a steep uphill with the attention in the art. In autumn 2006, the purchase of work by the Saatchi Gallery, in the context of the series legendary exhibition "The Triumph of Painting" will be shown . There followed solo shows in the galleries, Goff + Rosenthal Ronmandos in Berlin and in Amsterdam. Last year, finally succeeded in the big breakthrough. In addition to several solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries such as breath of Venison in Zurich, Cueto Projects in New York or Adler in Frankfurt were pictures, videos and installations of Artists Anonymous to be seen in Bregenzer Kunstverein magazine 4, at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in conjunction with the exhibition series "cult of the artist".
Because they have the collective chosen to just the star cult to escape what they - in spite of all the successes so far, succeeding. Moreover, prices for their images for a larger group of collectors has remained affordable. Representative works are offered from the Gallery Adler in Frankfurt or Amsterdam Ronmandos at prices from 12,000 euros upwards.
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