Christa Wawers was born and raised in Hünfelden near Limburg an der Lahn. Having completed her school leaving exams and studies in education science specialising in art in Frankfurt am Main, her attention turns to family and occupations unrelated to art.
Since the eighties she has been focusing again on artistic means of expression, producing sculptures, batik work and watercolours on silk and paper. She attends the European Art Academy in Trier and other painting schools, which lead her to first become intensively involved with watercolours, followed by acrylic, pastels, tusches (Sumi-e) and oil. She likes to experiment and does not commit herself to any one style.
In 1986 Christa Wawers begins to take part in exhibitions and goes on to hold exhibitions exclusively of her own work.
She also begins a collaboration with the Mittelrhein Cultural Working Group based at Rheinfels Castle, St. Goar/Rhein and participates in art projects. As part of the Rhineland Palatinate Summer of Culture, she designs the poster and CD cover for the multimedia show “Guillaume Apollinaire and the Rhine”.
An interesting discussion in the summer of 2002 prompts her to embark on a new experiment: following on from her enthusiasm for all types of celestial phenomena, which stretches back as far as her childhood, as well as her curiosity about what is “out there”, she sets herself a challenge - to capture the world beyond our planet in paintings.
The result is a series entitled: “THE UNIVERSE IN COLOUR - ASTRONOMY PAINTED IN OIL”.
Planetary haze, stars, dark clouds, supernova remains and galaxies in their various forms and colours, as if randomly cast into the dark wide space, yet in keeping with physical and chemical properties, inspire the artist to depict all this on canvas in oil, and on paper in watercolour and compound colours.
Observing the skies with the naked eye, binoculars and telescopes, she captures a direct impression in her work. She makes use of modern technologies: the special photographic techniques of big telescopes such as the ESO Very Large Telescope and the ESA/ NASA Hubble Space Telescope, which make the universe as visible as it might be in reality. From both views she forms her own aesthetic interpretation of events in space and bridges the gap between the immeasurable distances and the eye of the observer, as well as between science and art.
She refrains from fantastic, symbolic or surrealistic aspects in this series of pictures because, she says, the universe is simply fascinating as it appears to us.
The premiere of the space pictures is held in March 2003 at Solingen Observatory.
Other exhibitions followed:
- Art fair, Sindelfingen Exhibition Hall, Stuttgart
- Bavarian Public Observatory, Munich
- Titisee Spa Hotel
- Historical Post Yard, Bacharach/Rhine
- ARTcafé, Bergisch-Gladbach
- European Southern Observatory (ESO) Garching/Munich
- UNIKAT Gallery Rolandswerth/Bonn
- Hattingen Public Observatory Hattingen, Ruhr
- Zeiss Large Planetarium, Berlin
- Astronomical Institutes, Bonn University
- Main Guardroom and Landgrave’s Tavern, Rheinfels Castle, St. Goar
- Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
- Königsleiten Planetarium/Observatory/Holiday Park, Austria
- Solingen Blade Museum
- ART International Zurich/Switzerland
- Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald Landscape Museum, Hachenburg
- “Die Linse” art restaurant in the Krebsmühle (crab mill),Frankfurt/Oberursel
- Europlanetarium Genk/Belgium
- Zeiss Planetarium, Jena
- Forthcoming exhibitions:
- “The Long Night of the Stars” (Die Lange Nacht der Sterne)
- Bacharach Post Yard
- Stuttgart Planetarium
- ESO Garching “Day of the Open Door” (Tag der offenen Tür)
- ART Contemporain Paris/France, Place de la Bastille
- Paffendorf Castle, Bergheim (RWE Gallery)
- Mannheim Planetarium
- «Das Wattenmeerhaus» National Park Centre, Wilhelmshaven
- GRS Gesellschaft für Anlagen- u. Reaktorsicherheit (Company for plant and reactor safety), Cologne
- Other exhibitions planned
Member of: Solingen Observatory, Walter-Horn-Gesellschaft e.V. and IAAA—International Association of Astronomical Artists, Orlando, Florida/USA
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This space artist is not available for sale.
Credit:
NASA & ESA
