Unique painting abstract "Let it Go" informal painting

The painting of Petra Klos is to be assigned without exception to the art style Informel. The contemporary unique painting shows an abstract representation. The abstract elements refer to a completely free interpretation of the artist, which appears completely free of objects. The title of the painting "Let it Go" suggests that an emotional confrontation is the basis of this work. The viewer should be able to interpret the work freely in every respect.

The artist Petra Klos

Consequently, the artist Petra Klos counts herself among the contemporary representatives of abstract art. Effectively she proves in her works which talent she has. She succeeds seemingly playfully in projecting powerful impulses with frenetic enthusiasm into her motifs, which are unmistakable for her characteristic style of art. Often there are interrelationships of organic forms, which critically illustrate her artistic work. Stylistically, Petra Klos' painting can be classified as Informel.

In her pictorial compositions Petra Klos succeeds in constantly reprocessing her present emotions, fantasies and moods. Power, assertiveness, energy, as well as the artist's immediate feeling for color are consistently reflected in her abstractions. She brings together disparate things, loves to experiment with materials, and has a keen sense of exemplary arrangement of color and texture. Using stylish and symptomatic painting techniques, the artist manages to express these qualities in color and form with pronounced passion and enthusiasm. A style that stimulates reflection, to one's own interpretations. The Berlin-born artist says about herself: "For me, the picture surface is "a field open on all sides", so that many of my works - despite their limitations imposed by the format - appear as a section of a larger whole. In all of this, I prefer simplicity in form and consistently aim for the effect of coloration and texture in the surface, with the color red playing an important role alongside earth tones."

In the meantime, the purely emotional, non-representational works are repeatedly supplemented by abstract landscapes. The impressions Petra Klos gets on her travels, the artist tries to give back through her own interpretation. Thus one finds in the listing of her works beside the completely non-representational, often monochrome and color-reduced works, abstract, quite colorful landscape and coastal pictures. She deliberately abandons the real depiction of what she sees and allows her impressions to flow into the color compositions.

Initial successes - in 2002 Klos was awarded the Plaidter Kunstpreis - brought the artist national recognition and greater reach. In addition to significant solo exhibitions in major European cities and public acquisitions, for example by the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, artist Petra Klos has also made an international name for herself in the USA.

Short vita

Born 1956 in Berlin, lives and works in the Allgäu
2001 European Art Academy Trier, intensive studies in painting, drawing, object and printmaking, Bad Reichenhall Academy
Since 1994 freelance artist, lecturer at the Allgäu Art Academy and other institutions, member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Schwaben South

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

2019     Waxmühle, Petingen (Luxembourg)
2018     Gallery Oberstdorf at Trettachhäusle
2017     Deutsche Postbank Zentrale, Bonn / Exhibition at Siemens in Cologne
2016     Gallery Augenblick, Tannheim (Austria) / Schloss Ummendorf / Burg Rode, Herzogenrath
2015     Gallery and Studio Raum und Raum, Oberstaufen / Gallery Seidenlicht, Bad Grönenbach / Gallery AndO, Oberstdorf
2014     City Hall Bad Hindelang
2013     Fiskina Fischen
2012     City Hall Haldenwang
2010     Altes Rentamt Mindelheim, Feldkirch/A, Stuttgart
2009     Augsburg, Immenstadt, Irsee, Stuttgart
1994 - 2008 Trier, Koblenz, Düsseldorf, New Haven USA, Munich, Brussels, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Mayen, Augsburg, Vaihingen, Esslingen

Exhibitions (excerpt)

2019  Art in the Museum, Füssen / "The Large Format", Memmingen
             31st Art Exhibition of Swabian Artists, Irsee
             Art with Vision, Oberstdorf

2018  Art in dialogue with graphics of the 20th century, Oberstdorf / Literaturhaus Immenstadt
             BBK exhibitions in the museum Füssen and town hall Pfronten

2017     39. Ostallgäuer Kunstausstellung, Marktoberdorf
2016     Galeria Guschelbauer, Mörlenbach
2015     Kunstverein OFFArt, Günzburg / BBK im Literaturhaus Immenstadt / Kunst im GZI, Immenstadt
2014     Literaturhaus Immenstadt / Kunstverein Bad Wörishofen
2012     Die Südliche in Immenstadt and Oberstdorf
2011     Festwochenausstellung Kempten / Kunst im GZI Immenstadt / Ostallgäuer Kunstausstellung, Marktoberdorf
2010     Kunstwoche Bad Hindelang, "Die Südliche", Sonthofen
2009     Kunsthalle Kempten

Awards
2002 Plaidter Kunstpreis / Galerie Lampa, 2006 Galerie im Uhrturm, Dierdorf

Public Purchases | Works in Public Space
Gleiss Lutz Stuttgart, City Hall Koblenz and Polch, New Pinakothek Munich

Art fairs
ART Innsbruck / ART Karlsruhe / Bodensee, Salzburg, Art fair Waldbronn