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Core Paintings enabling her to introduce a special craquelure technique at
For each core painting Günther begins with a gold primer, some points, opening up the paint surface with little cracks to
which she applies in two layers directly onto the raw canvas. expose the color underneath the cores.
She mounts them with the untreated back up on the stretcher. The core itself arises in a kind of inversion, like the canvas it is
The finest, the gold, is being applied to the raw canvas painted on is turned back to front. The revealing of the hidden
and creates a luminous, radiant surface as a pure, almost inner core is done by superimposing up to ten layers of oil
paradisiacal starting point for each new core image. Günther is paint. The gold itself repeatedly shines through to the painting
consistently using natural pigments and binding them herself surface, especially at the core margins. Together with the
creating her own oil colors. This does not only allow her to interplay of the different layers of color, it gives each core an
work with the most vibrant and rich shades of color. It is also intrinsic image depth and radiance.

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