Ruth Campau
Born in 1955, the artist Ruth Campau is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her art is represented in renowned collections and she has received numerous awards and prizes. In her works, the artist explores the boundaries between painting, sculpture, installation and collage in new ways. Diverse materialities and media are combined and composed into a technoid-looking mashup. For example, Ruth Campau sometimes covers Dibond surfaces with a mirrored mylar foil, which is painted with large brush strokes and acrylic paint. The final painting of the object and the shiny, reflective surface and its metallic texture make the artists' signature visible.
The installations and collages play with the viewer's visual perception and spatial illumination. Translucent, transparent, opaque and reflective surfaces and webs are combined to form aesthetic structures that seem to imitate or dissimulate a canvas. The artist folds, cuts, hangs and lays picture elements and turns them into installation objects in many other ways.
