Paintings of the Nineties
From the beginning of the 1990s to the end of the millenium, Christa Walhof made a series of large-format paintings, partly as a retrospective of the past century. Photographs from old magazines and books, including old engravings from the 20th century, served as image templates. "...they are just symbolic images, metaphors for earlier mentalities, their existence you sometimes wonder about and try to get in balance, looking to the future..."
combining two working periods
The themes and content of these two creative periods couldn’t be more different – and yet they seem to harmonize in a particular way…
the size of the images is proportional to the size of the original paintings