Gundi Falk - Blue Interlacing - Large painting on panel - circa 2000

Artist: Gundi Falk (born in 1966 in Salzburg, Austria – lives and works in Brussels)
Title: Blue Interlacing
Date: Circa 2000
Technique: Painting (acrylic / mixed media) on panel
Dimensions: 100 × 70 cm
Signature: Monogram “GF” (square) in the lower left corner

Condition: Work originating from the workshop, with minor wear and imperfections of the period, normal for a working piece.

Framing: Sold unframed

Provenance: Artist's studio, Brussels

The work: Against a dense, midnight blue background, almost black in places, a mass of bodies coils and interlocks. The volumes are constructed in broad planes of white, gray, and black: curved backs, tucked heads, limbs that cross without ever separating. Nothing is portraiture; everything is weight, rhythm, compaction.

The blue is not simply a background. It is worked with the same gesture as the figures—circular brushstrokes, areas of reserve, reworking. The blacks define the joints and the voids; the whites bring the flesh to life. From afar, the work can be read at a glance: an embrace, a moment of repose, a knot.

Up close, the studio work is evident—the impasto, the brushstrokes, the panel showing through in places. Large horizontal format, sculptural presence. The deep blue isolates the figures and lends them a gravity that the red of the twin piece lacks.

The painting requires a calm wall and raking light so that the greys take on their full density.

The artist Gundi Falk, born in 1966 in Salzburg, is a painter, sculptor, and contemporary dancer by training. She studied dance and calligraphy in Asia and Europe. Based in Brussels for many years, she has developed a practice in which movement, rhythm, chance, and space are inseparable.

The line is not a descriptive outline: it is the trace of a body in motion. She has been exhibiting internationally since 1998.

Notable exhibitions

: Gallery at the Assignment Theater, Taipei (1998)
Grand Casino Bern (2005)
Le Corbusier, Marseille (2006)
; Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia (2009-2010)
; Vertigo Art Gallery and Le Salon d'Art, Brussels (2011, 2014).

From 2011 she collaborated with Pierre Cordier, inventor of the chemigram (1956). Their joint works have been shown at the Von Lintel Gallery, New York (Unique, 2013); Haines Gallery, San Francisco (Index and Icon, 2015); The Heckscher Museum, New York (Modern Alchemy – Experiments in Photography, 2014-2015); Paris Photo (2016); Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin (2016); Barbado Gallery, Lisbon (2016); Galerie Anna Wenger, Zurich (The Chemigram, 2018); Galerie Gimpel & Müller, Paris (DUO, 2020-2021); Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels (UNIQUE / Beyond Photography, 2024); La Centrale.brussels (Hosting, 2024).

In parallel, his pictorial work — interlacing, constructions of nudes, lineworks — has notably been presented at Espace Art by Goralska, Luxembourg (Entrelacs – Espace de dynamisme et de souffles, 2022), RSF Paris (2025) and Galerie Marschner, Wels (Lebenslinien, 2025-2026).

His works are featured in private collections in Europe, the United States, and Asia.