Halali. 2005.
Acrylic, shellac and asphalt varnish on canvas.
Signed and dated on the reverse. 180 x 200 cm (70.8 x 78.7 in). [AW].

• The uneven, impasto surface creates an exciting tactile effect.
• Her diverse oeuvre includes painting, drawing, photography, performance, film, music and literature.
• After the regime imposed an exhibition ban in 1981. she left the GDR in 1984, so that the early works she left behind are considered lost today.
• Works by Cornelia Schleime are in renowned collections like the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin.

The work will be included into Cornelia Schleime's catalogue raisonné compiled by Juergen Judin and Dr. Pay Matthis Karstens, Berlin (in preparation).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin.
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Cornelia Schleime. In der Meute steht die Beute, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, November 19, 2005 - January 28, 2006, pp. 6f. (illu. in color).