bettina zapp

konsum 163: You describe yourself as an emotional jet fighter :-)!
How did you come up with that term? Bettina: Well, I think that’s just me.
It’s not that I’m an emotional jet fighter in normal life, but when I start painting, all the feelings – and there are always a bit too many – come out. that are inside me and they are whizzing around in my head.
But like a good pilot, I think it’s great to control and sort it. konsum 163: And then you transfer that to your pictures? Bettina: Yes.
At least that’s what I try to do.
That’s the great thing about painting.
When you start, you find yourself in a parallel world, as if taken out of time, and then you only communicate with yourself and your painting.
I concentrate on the elementary, I try to simplify my feelings. konsum 163: Does the precision of your painting style come from this simplification? Bettina: I think so.
I need contour, clarity to bring my narratives onto the canvas.
On the one hand, this certainly stems from my interest in all things structured – after all, I didn’t study interior design for nothing – and on the other, from the dialog between the colors.
This sometimes results in a kind of crayon perception. konsum 163: Dialogue between the colors? Bettina: For me, the picture represents an event field of color.
Colors are emotions that react to each other.
I start painting by choosing a color.
The next color reacts to the first color, creating an immediate dialogue between them.
The two colors suggest a space within the picture plane.
And so the dialog begins. konsum 163: So your painting is ultimately a conversation between the colors and you as the artist are the moderator. Bettina: No, of course not :-).
That’s nonsense!
It’s more like the relationship between an author and his characters or a director and his actors.
And they have to give something back for the attention you give them.
It’s like a good play.
The only difference is that my In contrast to a firmly defined story, images offer a story.
An emotional framework of shapes, colors and gestures.
The viewer does the rest and hopefully then has their own emotional jet fighter. konsum 163: Which brings us back to the beginning.
But when you said emotion jet fighter, we immediately thought of the term “hummingbird”.
Of course, this is due to the fact that we have seen airy, airy pictures in a smaller format in your studio.
Does that fit in with your image of your work? Bettina: Yes, that’s wonderful.
Hummingbird fits.
With my pictures I make the viewer an offer and why shouldn’t there be a hummingbird in it?
Hummingbirds have a heartbeat of up to 20 beats per second.
Unlike other birds, they can also fly sideways and backwards, and if I have seen this correctly, you are referring to the pictures “…” and similar (title from page 34 Bettina) (p. 34 to 41), then I agree with this one hundred percent.
But that is of course only one facet of my work. konsum 163: But more the jet fighter? Bettina: Jet fighters and hummingbirds, I think they are just the two opposite poles of the same story.
The current forms of my development as a painter.
Before that there is also an oeuvre that is certainly not so focused, but nevertheless very exciting, and after that it will continue.
I’m looking forward to it myself.
And you can also describe Emotionsdüsenjäger versus Kolibri as tenderness or fierceness.
And there are a lot of nuances in between. konsum 163: We look forward to discovering them and thank you very much.