Vernissage of the exhibition ANNELIE KADUK . PAINTING

The former editor and painter Annelie Kaduk presents portraits, subjects and collages that deal with the light and dark sides of a woman's life. Her mostly large-format pictures in intense colors are multi-layered. It is precisely their ambiguity that captivates the viewer, making them profound and mysterious. The faces in particular are full of vibrancy and harbor many an irritation.

It is not easy to get a picture of these images. Annelie Kaduk portrays women that we encounter in everyday life: successful in their careers and in art, sometimes plagued by worries and suffering, annoyed and rebellious, and yet at the same time appealingly beautiful, mysterious, motherly. Women whom we meet as muse, Barbie or mother, or as someone who steps out of the darkness into the light and out of the frame. The portraits of three authors with whom she worked as an editor receive special attention: Valerie Radtke, Charlotte Worgitzky and Maxie Wander.

And in view of the increasing threat of war and environmental destruction, Annelie Kaduk poses the question in her end-time images and her triptych as to what will happen if our species continues so obliviously. DE TEMPORUM FINE COMOEDIA? (The game of the end of times?)

After Rudolf Kiefert has given an introduction to the exhibition, the biographies of the three writers will be the focus of a literary-musical program with Annelie Kaduk, the actress and singer Bärbel Röhl and the accordionist Gerhard A. Schiewe. Attendance at the vernissage is free of charge, tickets for the evening program are available at the Waren (Müritz) Information Office, online at www.hdg-waren.de, at Reservix and at the box office.