Le Je et Le Moi

Drawings are "more intellectual, more refined than paintings, comparable "to a poem", they are highly concentrated and compacted, with every pictorial element placed precisely in position, explains Dorothee Golz. Like Golz, her fellow artists Adriana Czernin, Irene Daunt and Ulrike Lienbacher, too, utilise drawings as a personal, uncompromising medium. They use the white sheets of paper to tell short, intense stories, to outline scenarios or imaginary worlds that live more on the power of the line than on colour. Interestingly, the characters populating the worlds they create are typically feminine. It is their own gender that is raised as an issue in ways ranging from the humorous to the critical, without any direct autobiographical references, but based on their own worlds of experiences. > Sabine B. Vogel