[Focus] – Astrid Stoeppel, Mix-up!

Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2024.

With this work, titled Mix-up!, Astrid Stoeppel positions herself within a contemporary geometric abstraction that inherits from modernist research while clearly moving beyond it. The composition is built around a network of clean, sinuous, colored lines that intersect and overlap without hierarchy. The visual logic suggested by the title is immediately apparent: an organized entanglement in which circulation replaces stability.

References to geometric abstraction and hard-edge painting are evident in the precision of the forms and the clarity of the color fields, yet they are deliberately softened. Geometry here loses its rigid character to become fluid and organic.
Color plays a structuring role. Both pop and controlled, it energizes the surface without overwhelming it, creating a balance between order and spontaneity. While the work may appear immediately appealing, it resists settling into pure decoration, instead offering a visual reflection on complexity, interconnection, and movement.

Free of imposed narrative, the painting functions as a space of experience. It invites the viewer’s eye to circulate, to wander, and to recompose the surface, affirming an accessible post-geometric abstraction firmly anchored in contemporary concerns.