Dagmar Lißke: swimming in blue

Since 2000, Dagmar Lißke has been investigating how texts and characters can be read as images. With the exception of a few works, she never changes her basic pictorial idea of using the aesthetics of typesetting, depicting characters without periods and commas and spaces between words. In the picture, legibility thus loses its significance and necessity. Nevertheless, her chosen texts present themselves in an extremely changeable way by altering small nuances of representation. The material always plays an essential role. Graphite and paper form the basis. Her chosen process of creation is almost alchemical: "chymical" as one work is called. Over the years, Dagmar Lißke has developed a process in which she changes methods and content, as well as the formats of the pictures and their form of presentation. This process of transformation and change or approach is made visible in the selection of works in the exhibition.
The Caspar David Friedrich Society is delighted to pay tribute to its long-standing chairwoman in her 80th year with the current exhibition, curated by Katja Lißke.