Céline-Alice Künstler
Céline-Alice Künstler (her grand-mother's family name) was born in the country side of Belgium. Autodidact and multidisciplinary artist.
By the age of 6, she entered art by studying music theory and playing the piano.
Later 1992 in Brussels, she discovered the magic of photos processing and has never left the art world since.
Photography, monotypes, paintwork, drawings, filming, performing, sculpting, singing... Her work is diverse though thematically linked.
The connection between nature and humankind.
Dark monotypes, sometimes simple, drawings with ink sometimes crowded with fragile characters, grotesques, terrible visions drawn with sharp pastels, coloured pencils or watercolours. Nothing is rubbed, leaving people or nature simply as they are.
Her works represent the human conditions, deformed, defective, contradictory, and emotionally so fragile as well as the beauty of nature.
An infinite tenderness emanates from those sometimes coarse features, a little childish yet full of soft maturity which indicates to us the richness of our differences, our uniqueness, fragility and complexities.
Her photographic work is an echo of some drawings: intimate portraits or abandoned landscapes, composed in-frame, viewed through reflections, soft mist or through the skew of solitary objects, an attachment to the world around.
She's never wanted to digitally manipulate her photos, like the drawing aren’t corrected; preferring the reality of the unadulterated image; documentary rather than ‘reality make-over’.
Treating the blackness and dark corners, defects and foibles without forgetting the tenderness, enchantment and poetry of life.
AliCéline and the other side of the picture.
Written by Julie Dumont