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‘A new abstraction in 21th century’
Simone Albers’s (1990) psychedelic paintings draw inspiration from all kinds of wacky shapes and colours found in the natural world, from wiggly cell structures to exploding galaxies. Simone is endlessly fascinated by the absurdity of existence. Why is there “something” instead of “nothing”? It is incredibly weird and beautiful that in billions of years matter could organise itself into atoms, molecules, galaxies, planets and even life. She finds an analogy between painting and the creation and evolution of nature. Colour, transparency and layering are …