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Eleonore Koch
30 May - 28 June 2024
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Cecilia Brunson Projects presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Eleonore ‘Lore’ Koch (b. 1926, Berlin, d. 2018, São Paulo) in our gallery viewing room. Focused on the artist’s time living in London, the exhibition includes works never before exhibited, from the collection of her most important British patron. We are pleased to see the painter celebrated in two cities so significant in her artistic journey, presenting her work in London in concurrence with a major retrospective at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil.
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Eleonore Koch is not easily placed in the narrative of Brazilian art history. Her singular figurative style, developed against a culture dominated by male geometric abstractionists, has delayed full appreciation of her achievement in transmitting to her viewers a wholly subjective sense of seeing and being in the world. Nevertheless, this remarkable skill captivated individuals throughout her life, including her British patron Alistair McAlpine, through whose support she was able to make a home in London through the 1970s and 80s and dedicate herself entirely to painting.
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Eleonore Koch, Green fruit dish and orange, 1973, egg tempera on canvas, 65 x 81 cm -
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Eleonore Koch, The Coast, 1974, egg tempera on canvas, 73 x 90 cm
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First an immigrant to Brazil, having fled Germany in 1936, and then a foreigner in London, her pictorial world is a product of her rootlessness, at once a synthesis of diverse influences and its own suspended reality – an oneiric landscape in which the artist built a permanent home. Through her time in London, highly traditional themes including still lifes with fruit or flowers, or coastal landscapes, became the subjects of an ongoing exercise in clarifying this world, which she painted with a sun-drenched luminosity and heavy atmosphere.
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Eleonore Koch, Untitled, 1975, tempera on paper, 49 x 42.5 cm (framed)
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List of works
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Eleonore KochGreen fruit dish and orange, 1973Egg tempera on canvas65 x 81 cm
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 inSigned & dated on verso 'Eleonore 8.73'View more details -
Eleonore KochThe coast, 1974Egg tempera on canvas73 x 90 cm
28 3/4 x 35 3/8 inSigned & dated bottom left 'Eleonore 1974'View more details -
Eleonore KochUntitled, 1984/85Tempera on canvas81 x 64.8 cm
31 7/8 x 25 1/2 inSigned & dated bottom leftView more details -
Eleonore KochUntitled, 1976Tempera on paper49 x 42.5 cm (framed)
19 1/4 x 16 3/4 inView more details -
Eleonore KochUntitled, 1975Tempera on paper49 x 42.5 cm (framed)
19 1/4 x 16 3/4 inView more details
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First Image: Press / Espaço Líquido
Photography by Eva Herzog
