Bettina Weiß is showing her newest work at the Scotty Enterprises Gallery space.
Painted on wood, canvas and paper, her paintings of intense colour will be shown from March 8 until April 5 at Oranienburger Strasse 46 near Moritzplatz.

On the one hand, "island" playfully suggests the myth of the lost garden and the yearning for an island paradise. On the other hand, an island can also be seen as a mysterious biotope, and sometimes home to terrible creatures. It can be a small sheltered place where everything seems possible. These ambivalent associations not only correspond with Bettina Weiss’ approach to her work, but also with the appeal of the artistic effect.

Color Island stands for a place on which one can and must draw upon, but also for a synonym of the conditions in which the the paintings develop, like "guided by voices". An island of colour can be in the mind, on the artistic medium or simply in the eye of the beholder.

The canvas is a means of disaggregating space using colour. But: there is nothing simply conceptual here, even though it may seem so at first. Abstract geometric painting – Contstructivism, Suprematism, Minimalism, Pop-Art, Op-Art – have left a long trail throughout the times. Bettina Weiß draws upon this creative stock intuitively, and shows variations of never painted paintings of the last 100 years.