Red Army soldiers in the red blooming poppy field
... Ellen Semen has contributed a comprehensive series of naive paintings. However, the pictures are only naive and comic-like at first glance. In the pastel-colored picture, soldiers hide under red poppies, Thumbelina shows herself armed to the teeth, guns circle a single man.
Wolfsburger Nachrichten
Hans-Adalbert Karweik
Bombs in the Kunstverein
Castle: exhibition on the end of the war
Wolfsburger Allgemeine
Ausstellungshinweis
Like particles in a gearbox
...Ellen Semen's paintings are populated by manga fighting figures in idyllic landscapes, conceptually overlaid by media such as computer animation. It becomes clear that painting does not serve to reproduce reality, but to transform it.
Indigo
Victoria Romei
Floral militancy
...Ellen Semen's pictures build on this dialectic of innocence and horror. They juxtapose the harmless with the horrific, seemingly without comment.
Dr. Iris Meder
It happened in broad daylight out of the blue Painting with Ellen Semen
The unbroken desire for a regressive correction of the found reality proves to be a strategic constant of painting. This is followed by a return to the essential, to the artificial manipulation of today's experience of nature, the unconscious, the utopia of nothingness.
Auszüge aus einem Text von Ursula Maria Probst
