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• ▪ Painting and Drawing by Jutta Jung
• ▪ Exhibition in the gallery ART ROOM in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim (Germany) from 05-02-2022 – 04-03-2022
• ▪ From Neo-Pop Art to Magic Realism

The creative signature of textile designer Jutta Jung cannot be pigeonholed - in her artistic expression, she moves between Neo-Pop Art, Figurative Expressionism and Magical Realism. In her upcoming exhibition at the ART ROOM-Düsseldorf gallery, the Neuss-based artist will be showing new realistic-expressive paintings with motifs of women, in which she combines textile-like structures with luminous pours of paint.

Jutta Jung: "We all live in one world, and yet we do not. We all see the same thing, but perceive it differently. The diversity of external and internal views has always fascinated me."

As a counterpoint to her paintings of women, some of which are autobiographical in origin or can also stimulate the viewer's imagination for stories of their own, she is presenting a current series of surface paintings in the gallery. These are presented in her typical colourfulness and overlapping forms and structures.

This is complemented by an excerpt from her collection of "Women's Stories and Dream Landscapes" with expressive portrait drawings and abstract paintings. On large canvas formats, Jutta Jung works out in a painterly-gestural way what she wants to make visible. Power meets colour. Fine strokes and drawings are combined with painting on paper and in smaller formats - from contemplative to impulsive. Worlds of colour, abstracted landscapes, compositions that take up symbols and signs, figurative elements or depictions of people: Jutta Jung combines a variety of materials and artistic techniques in her paintings to depict her perspectives and ways of seeing. "There are always new worlds to discover," she says.

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Kreismuseum Zons is showing the special event "Art to the Last Corner" from 13 May to 26 June 2022. Jutta Jung is one of seven selected artists and will present works on her theme "Global Ethno". The museum as part of a former castle with buildings from the 17th to the end of the 20th century gives exhibitions a special presentation framework. It also contains the 900 works of Prof. Helmut Hahn's life's work from forty years of activity.

Vita
Jutta Jung lives and works in the Rhineland. She completed her design studies (specialising in textile design) at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld with a diploma under Professor Helmut Hahn with the grade "very good". Her main subjects were free drawing, free painting, illustration, colour composition, conception & design, art science, design theory. In addition to her many years of work as a textile designer and collection designer in the Rhineland textile industry, she has been working as a freelance designer and artist in her own studio since 2003:
▪ Textile design and collection design for companies in Europe and Asia. (including fabric designs, porcelain decors and designs for handmade carpets).
▪ Free painting and sale of works to private collectors.
Since 2010, Jutta Jung has concentrated exclusively on free artistic work in painting and drawing. She is a member of Kunst.Neuss e.V. and the artist network crossart international.

Contact:
E-Mail: jutta-jung-artwork@gmx.de
Web: https://juttajungartwork.com/

More and more retail stores are empty - even in good business locations like Pfeilstraße, one of the top modem fashion lines of Cologne. Glued blades are not a solution for real estate owner Helga Festi. She put on interim usage until the appropriate tenant is found. With success: the Popup-studio of the artist Barbara Ruf brought a win-win situation for all.

The displacement competition and the struggle between in-house trade and the growing power of the online platforms become visible to all: there are the vacancies in the business streets, which look unattractive. Not only small towns and affiliates are affected, but also the shopping streets in the big cities. In Pfeilstraße, one of the top addresses in Cologne for upscale needs, currently there are four business locations empty or are being renovated.

For Helga Festi no nice view. The full-blooded fashion retailer passionately led her fashion shop Lips in her own property and retired in 2014. The successful Lips concept was leased. But the continuation with another handwriting did not work. The shop floor was empty in spring 2016, the search for a suitable tenant takes time. Reason enough for Helga Festi to look for another intermediate use. There a coincident happened and brought a chance: the Cologne artist Barbara Ruf walked by her shop with a painting under her arm. From a conversation a plan developed: Already two weeks later the painter came with an easel and 100 paintings and moved for two months in the rooms of the Pfeilstraßen 41. Just in time for the autumn street festival, Barbara Ruf presented herself in her pop-up studio with a retrospective of her art. Instead of an ugly vacancy a win-win situation happened for all.

The popup studio represents a whole new dimension for Barbara Ruf. "It is inspiration and a new territory at the same time," the artist rejoices. "I paint daily and I am inspired by the wonderful ambience and the passing spectators. It's like a shop window."

The time in the temporarily rented studio the painter knew how to use, she presented herself daily as a gallery, arranged in October a vernissage with the coherent title Intermezzo and celebrated a live art performance. For two hours the guests watched the picturesque history of the painting `Deutzer Hafen'. It is the fifth from the new picture cycle with photos of the recently deceased Cologne photographer Hans-Peter Fuhrmann, all of which were created in the pop-studio.

Real estate owners should be mobile

Also after the artistic in between use Helga Festi is still adventurous. "I always had a good partnership with my neighbors of Pfeilstraße and would like to keep a certain standard. The intermediate use is a good tool for testing for both sides – smart property owners should be more flexible. "At the beginning of November the streetwear label DZZD celebrated as a pop-up store opening and tested the location in Cologne. If the start is good, the long-term rental agreement will be signed. An appointment for next year is already envisaged.

Further information about Barbara Ruf at www.barbara-ruf.de