Ellen Akimoto

The sceneries of Ellen Akimoto take place in two-dimensional rooms, partly phantasy, partly memory, partly dream. The room with the yellow walls and the round arched window – behind a changing mountainous region. A carpet or a parquet flooring fold in the parallel perspective so that one can better see the pattern. Ornaments appear to be pulled in the visual world with "drag & drop": the net curtain, the vase, the cup, the tablecloth, the colored blouse.

On these stages, often but not reliable there appear three-dimensional actors: The artist herself, a rubber tree, a tomcat, a blond woman, a man without trousers, a horse, a black tattooist, ducks. The setting is simple, the effect however is sustaining and deep. These paintings fascinate.

On the left side of a kissing couple, a book of pictures from Giotto is lying on a chest of drawers. The Italian Master personifies the begin of three-dimensional painting, the renaissance and the humanism. What is this, that we experience 700 years later?