„During the first two years of the pandemic, which I spent entirely in New York City, I deeply reconnected with Renaissance painting. It started in May 2020 when I kept waking up in one of my favorite Renaissance paintings. Again, it was less the narrative content of, say, Botticelli’s Primavera, or Fra Angelico’s Annunciations than the color impressions, which kept echoing within me over the day. Turning inwards and “listening” to these colors rooted me during an uncertain time, and eased my sense of separation from home in Europe, which I couldn’t visit during the Covid pandemic travel ban. Back in my studio, I started to create these colors myself, or try. My technique evolved while the palette shifted to darker and earthier tones. I feel it’s important to be connected to my roots and to worship ancestors, in a familiar but also abroader sense. In a way, the Renaissance was about this return too, as a rebirth of ideas from ancient Greece and Rome.1″
Platform Art, Spotlight: Jule Korneffel — the artist on the alchemy of color and calling two places home
