Book Lilo Kinne - Multidimensional Art

In New York in 1995, the book LILO KINNE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ART was published by International Art Research, Investment, Placement, Contacts (iar) in a limited edition of 2,500. Each book is signed and numbered by the artist.
The edition was printed in Germany in 3 languages (English, French, and German) by a printing company which prints for firms like Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch, and other international companies. After its publication in 1995, and in the following years, signed, numbered, and dedicated books have been given to internationally known gallerists, art collectors, museum curators and members of the press in the USA, Japan, Europe, and other parts of the world. This limited edition publication focuses primarily on the paintings within the eclectic artistic creation of the artist.

The Foreword of the book LILO KINNE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ART is written by Professor Dr. Hans Kramer. Professor Dr. Hans Kramer, who has collected Lilo Kinne's work for over 20 years, was the Dean of the Philosophy Department at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and he met Lilo Kinne in 1974 during her time in Stuttgart.

The two have remained close friends ever since, and in the year 2000, Hans Kramer has visited Lilo Kinne in the ART SPACE - NEW YORK, and they have both joyfully experienced all that has been accomplished within the years since they both had met in 1974. This visit had been planned for a decade.

Throughout the 26 years of their friendship, Lilo Kinne and Hans Kramer met regularly for existential and philosophical discussions in Tuebingen, in Stuttgart and now for the very first time in New York City. Even during Lilo Kinne's extensive world travels, she kept in close contact with Prof. Kramer. Videotapes of their philosophical talks were produced.

FOREWORD

by Professor Dr. Hans Kramer

Even though all modern subject matter and techniques have become acceptable, Lilo Kinne's work remains concerned with expression. The early paintings, which already emphasized form and color equally, are characterized by an expression that refers to inner problems, conflicts, tensions, and unanswered questions. Abstraction is, therefore, never an escape into unreality or the noncommittal for Kinne; rather, it is the overcoming and clarification of existential questions by new means.

This also manifests itself in the free, impressionistic painting style of the Paris period, and it is astonishingly evident in the most recent creative phase marked by American Expressionism ("dripping"), when the painter now proceeds to complete the abstract statements with verbal ones, by adding uncoded, short and slogan-like messages. One should not attempt to recognize a trend towards the "Gesamtkunstwerk" in this - the texts do not make an actual literary claim - rather they are a clarification and explication of the depth of the dimension and basic orientation of the artworks themselves, which are given to the recipient as interpretive aids. In doing so, individual ethical and socially critical appeals merge, and at last converge into a background that is a life-philosophy.

They are experiences from all that life encompasses, and are in fact a life-spanning totality of death, post-existence and reincarnation, which cannot be separated easily from Kinne's art, but gives it its unique and substantial density. Here art is intended to become a sign, a symbol for a philosophy of life and practical approach to life that is just as removed from art for art's sake as it is from obvious superficial ideological and political posturing. It is an engaged art, but one that focuses less on the external prerequisites of being human than on recording the human condition and its existential state. The worldly artist is attempting to transcend limited western perspectives to include those beyond Europe, in particular Asian and Indian relations to the world and to the self.

The usually light, sometimes even glistening color surfaces are a constant in the overall body of work, while the forms vary increasingly: at times they are simple geometric shapes, then impressionistically blurred lines, or even isolated "tachiste" color spots where color generates form.

Anyone who has met Lilo Kinne personally knows about her multiple talents, her inexhaustible energy, and her volcanic temperament, but also about the unbridled need to communicate and the intellectual concentration, which determine her life in the smallest detail. Seen from this point of view, only a fraction of her multifaceted persona, which seems to be under constant high voltage, has been recorded in her nevertheless rich artistic work. MULTIDIMENSIONALITY is the key word that is invoked again and again in her most recent work as a title or guiding concept that provides an unmistakable link to the artist's intellectual physiognomy. Just as Lilo Kinne attempts in her work to remind a human of his or her MULTIDIMENSIONALITY and to activate it, so she also attempts to exemplarily live in her own "Life-Artwork" the multiplicity and at the same time, the interconnectedness of all things.

Professor Dr. Hans Kramer
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany, 1994

Born in 1950, Lilo Kinne's life as an artist spans over the past 25 years. Since the 1970's, she has been working as an artist, lived within countries such as Germany, France, Japan, USA and travelled extensively throughout India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, and many other countries.

Throughout these past 25 years, Lilo Kinne created paintings, photographs, multimedia installations, art audios / videos / CD's, written art texts, art performances, works on paper, photo and print editions, and during her Paris Period, a collection: 'Oeuvres d'Art Originales - Pret-a-Porter Paris-New York'. In addition to her own artistic creation, she presented her works of art and held art events / exhibits of her own art in co-operation with artists from all over the world. She has developed international art projects with ART SPACEs in different cultures, where she arranged exhibitions and held art performances:
Stuttgart (1975-78), San Francisco (1979), Tokyo (1980), Frankfurt (1981), Paris (1982-89), and New York (1989-Present).

Lilo Kinne's works are in private, corporate, and public collections all over the world, since she travels extensively, and is of an extremely cosmopolitan spirit. Her activities have been presented widely in the media, with many appearances in magazines, newspapers, and on television. Numerous solo shows and participations in international art fairs all over the world have taken place since 1976.