Current exhibition

Nieves Salz­mann, born in 1976 in Les Lilas in France, focus­es in her paint­ings on the depic­tion of land­scapes and urban spaces — aban­doned sub­urbs, indus­tri­al areas and most­ly desert­ed places. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by per­spec­tives, streets and traces, lines that stretch into the dis­tance and can be con­tin­ued by the view­er. The artist trans­fers these visu­al impres­sions and ideas to a wide vari­ety of image car­ri­ers such as paper, can­vas, wood and Plex­i­glas. The mul­ti-lay­ered atmos­pher­ic com­po­si­tions, most­ly exe­cut­ed in oil and graphite, are rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al but not worked through. The motifs are rec­og­niz­able, but delib­er­ate­ly incom­plete and often sketchy. Nieves Salz­mann lives and works in Paris. The artist has been rep­re­sent­ed with her works at Galerie Welz since 2011. New works are on dis­play in the exhi­bi­tion, includ­ing works cre­at­ed after her last trip to Japan.