Simone Haack — Helix Of Realism — Droste Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: August 29 → October 19, 2024

With Helix Of Realism, German painter Simone Haack presents both her paintings, a kind of capillary landscape, and, in an unprecedented way, her own dream notebooks. Since her early days at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Pat Andrea’s class, she has meticulously continued, like the American painter Julie Curtiss, to record and reproduce her dreams on paper. Like the Surrealists, she abandons herself to dreams as a manifestation of the unconscious, and explores them through painting too. The current paintings by the pupil of Katharina Grosse and Karin Kneffel are an ode to the macroscopic gaze cast on the dreamlike, a reflection on the essence of identity and a journey as tantalizing as it is disquieting.

Laure Saffroy-Lepesqueur

Simone Haack lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is a graduate of the HfK Bremen and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.