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Between shapes and volumes separated by hard edges or united by flowing transitions, abstraction hides a moment of reality. The artist captures these traces or visual abstractions of moments of our time with ink, acrylic and oil paint on nylon fabric. Natascha Schmitten skilfully explores the possibilities of the transparent fabric and, through the partial use of primers such as chalk ground, creates a contrasting coexistence of permeable and opaque surfaces. The latter she partially transforms in the further painting process by applying numerous increasingly dense color glazes, which no …