Nadine Schemmann
Nadine Schemmann (born November 9, 1977 in Solingen, Germany) is a contemporary German artist based in Berlin who until 2018 worked as an illustrator under her pen name Lulu.
Life
From 1997 until 2000 Nadine Schemmann studied at the Kölner International School of Design and from 2004 until 2006 at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Design and Fashion. Meanwhile, she was a Carl Duisberg scholarship recipient and spent one year at futurefarmers in San Francisco, USA and worked at buero destruct in Bern, Switzerland.[1] In 2001 she moved to Berlin and worked as a freelance designer and internationally recognized fashion illustrator until 2018. Parallel to the creative process, she took part in various exhibitions, among others in 2004 at "The Liverpool School of Art + Design“, at the London Transport Museum and others in Berlin, New York and Tokyo. In 2005, she gave seminars for the Goethe-Institut in Osaka, Tokio[2] and later also in Basel.
Work
Since 2018 Nadine Schemmann has been working as an independent artist. Her works deal with encounters in the broadest sense. A moment, an interaction, a standing sequence – mixed with words and sounds coupled with color associations. Usually there are two spheres, even more, facing, overlapping, mixing and flowing around each other. The layers can be multi-layered and can also cause chemical reactions due to the different applications of paint, through oil and water-based painting agents. Especially the use of chlorine bleach seems to want to correct parts of the paint application, sometimes to make it glow. The recurring seams, created when the linen fabrics are sewn together, deliberately join layers together. There are also works that play with "remembered encounters", parts of the picture are combined and painted over. New conversations, individual words, or harmonies are created. The surfaces show abstract processes to which we expose ourselves consciously and unconsciously. Tense in the mounted canvases – flowing and dissolved in the works, which mostly hang directly next to each other. Through light and movement, a life of its own emerges. The sculptures made of fabric complement this process as well as the confrontation of the ever new encounter.
Awards
She received the "American Illustration 24" award in 2005. In 2005, the U.S. magazine "Print" selected her as one of the 20 best up-and-coming designers in the world. She is on the 2006 list of „100 Köpfe von morgen“ which featured selected young people under the age of 40 who were predicted to have a promising future because of their "creativity and willingness to achieve." In 2006, NEON included her in its list of "The 100 Most Important Young Germans." In 2009 and 2010, she was appointed to the 12-member jury of the Axel Springer Academie to award the "Scoop" grant, which is endowed with a maximum of €500,000.[3][4]
Illustrations
Her illustrative work, applied until 2018, can be found on magazine covers, packaging and CD covers. Her fashion illustrations appear among others in The New York Times, InStyle, Glamour and in teen vogue and she designs the monthly cover of the South Korean edition of Elle. Schemmann was quoted in 2007 in FAZ that she tries to „visualize what is between the lines. I like best projects where I have a lot of freedom.“[5]
Private life
Schemmann lives and works in Berlin. She is married to the art historian and director of Vitra Design Museum Mateo Kries. The couple has three daughters.
Publications
- With Uta Brandes, Michael Erlhoff: Designtheorie und Designforschung. UTB/Fink, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3152-1 (UTB 3152) und ISBN 978-3-7705-4664-0 (Fink)[6]
References
- ↑ Designtheorie und Designforschung. UTB/Fink, Paderborn 2009, Vita Nadine Schemmann
- ↑ Sandra Kaiser: Zwischen Bloomingdale’s und Babypuder, Rheinische Post January 26, 2007, accessed on April 29, 2019
- ↑ SCOOP! 2: Axel Springer Akademie sucht erneut das kreativste Medienprojekt, Presseinformation Axel Springer Verlag vom 30. September 2009
- ↑ Scoop!-Wettbewerb. "Viele Ideen, wie wir die Welt verbessern können", .morgenpost.de vom 26. Februar 2010, abgerufen am 29. April 2019
- ↑ Stephanie Zein: Die wilde Farbe in der Vogue.[permanent dead link], Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung November 28, 2007
- ↑ Rezension auf designrhetorik.de
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