Hadassah Emmerich, 'Creole Collidoscope': PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH)

PLUS-ONE Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Hadassah Emmerich at the gallery (New South). Hadassah Emmerich is regarded as one of today’s most important Dutch painters. She makes exuberant, sensual paintings that stimulate the senses. Her creative process has a cyclic character, in which shapes and patterns keep recurring in a different composition or context, so that her works are in continual dialogue with one another. Emmerich thus spins an ever bigger and denser web of themes and associations. Her long, laborious creative process demands great physical and mental effort and concentration, which lends extra overtones and meanings to each detail. The ensuing monumental and generous works have a profound effect on the viewer and can evoke feelings of ecstasy. The power of fusing is a central feature of Emmerich’s oeuvre. In her work, she mixes together figures and patterns of flowers, plants and the female body, resulting in ornaments with an erotic appearance. The alluring images clearly refer to a fundamental life force and fertility, which are essential to both nature and mankind.