Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the solo-show of works by Hamburg-based Artist Claudia Ahlering, titled Still Alive. This is Ahlering’s second show with Hiromart Gallery, following her well-received Japanese debut show “The Internal Organs” held last year. The show features her new oil paintings and drawings, all works made for the solo-show.

Concept: Still Alive The most powerful moments in life are birth and death. The concept central to this body of work is the old European painting genre, Still life. Along the borderline between tradition and postmodernism, I explore ways of expression through images as if a lyrical story. In my work, the human body appears in the shape of living still life, posing, pending, a subject feeling too alive to surrender to aging and mortality; loving life too much to submit itself to the inevitability of growing old and the consequent loss of beauty and vitality. The subject is surrounded by the world’s beauty, which it may be embodying itself. The attributes of nature and the human countenance are evident in form of Apollonian beauty and balance. Vitality and resignation appear as opponents, creating tension in visible perception.

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Claudia Ahlering
Born in 1972 in Diepholz. She studied Fine Arts and Paintings since 1991, including scholarship at the École-des-Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2004, Ahlering received the Elysee-Price for figurativepainting in Hamburg. She had 7 solo-shows at galleries in Hamburg, London and Tokyo since her debut solo show held in 2004 by Kunsttreppe Hamburg. She also exhibited at numerous group show both domestically and internationally. Currently she works and lives in Hamburg, Germany.

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Artist Statement
I love the old masters as much as the modern painting. Residing in ‘realistic art’, I am focusing on the possibilities of artistic expressions in figurative paintings. Incapable to invent by applying the medium of painting, I rather observe and filter my interests to then give back. In contrast, by drawing I am inventing things without any limits. Here, I am as fictional as I can be. Both forms of expression are used in a very different way from one another. But both are necessary for me to reflect upon life.

Opening Reception:Friday July 27, 6 - 8 pm