Hessstrasse, Munich
Artist：Caro Jost
Size：66 x 64 x 10cm
Year：December 29, 2022
Media：Streetprint on shaped canvas
German artist Caro Jost's works are about time, space and events. The famous "Street Prints" series are imprints that Caro Jost made directly on site from original street surfaces. Since 2000, she has visited more than 70 places around the world, including the street in front of her studio in Munich - Hessstrasse. The neighborhoods where artists once worked and the areas where their spiritual were concentrated have became street traces which been deposit through time and inciden, and become abstract lines on the canvas through imprint. The street is the main theme of her creation, collecting together the spiritual field of art.
Artist
Caro Jost
(Germany, b. 1965)
Graduated from the Law School and the Art School of Munich University, Caro Jost lives and creates her art in Munich. Every artist has their favorite artists, but Caro Jost takes this admiration to a whole new level, incorporating her love for Munich's abstract expressionism groups into works extensively. Her works revolve around themes of time, space, and events. In the series "Streetprints," where she traveled to over 70 locations worldwide, imprinting traces she collected from the streets onto her canvases. Her artworks were exhibited MoMA, Chelsea Art Museum in New York, and Guggenheim Collection in Venice, permanently collected by the MoMA Library Collection (The archives of MoMA, NY), Chelsea Art Museum (NY), and Museum of the City of Munich.
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