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Metronome, 2002; Detail of painting 105x75cm. Chinese ink, gouache on paper.The 'airborne' image is a recurrent theme in my work as for me it represents beauty in total release. Skiers and boarders play permanently with centrifuge and gravity.This work is part of the Orchestrations series. Metronome will be in Christies ski sale feb 2004. My Electrika 80cm x 120cm canvas.
For me imagining a painting is not just visual but auditory too. A musical theme or title is often driving a painting via the quest for harmony and balance. I can often use the same parameters and discourse as I use for musical composition. ANGES GARCONS 1999. detail from105x75 cm graphite on paper.This drawing is part of the series of 20 called Exaltations.  I continued my work with very mobile forms and by
using a different technique  I gained  more information about my approach to composition. In addition the idea of leaving the skiers¹ faces 'unmasked', sharing and divulging their passion in movement excited me.
ZOE KRONBERGER
Having put on hold her career as a composer in 1998 to concentrate on her painting, it is still as a musician that Zoë Kronberger explores the incisive boundaries between the sky and the earth, interrogating the harmony or shock created by the meeting of form and light at high altitudes. It is an experience where the search for essence - in the silhouette as in nuance - must always provoke a more direct emotion. While certain paintings implicate significant figures in the midst of this adventure, all confront the surrounding world with defiance in the face of its transcendent power and primordial beauty.

En 1998 Zoë Kronberger a décidé de mettre entre parenthèses ses activités de compositrice pour se consacrer à la peinture avec la même exigence dans la création. Mais c’est en musicienne que Zoë Kronberger explore, comme des lignes mélodiques, les frontières incisives entre le ciel et la terre, qu’elle interroge l’harmonie où le choc que la rencontre des formes et de la lumière créent en haute montagne. C’est une expérience où la recherche de l’essentiel, dans la silhouette comme dans la nuance, a toujours pour but de provoquer l’émotion la plus directe. Si quelques tableaux impliquent de façon vitale des personnages dans cette aventure, tous nous posent le même “défi d’être” face aux puissances et aux beautés primordiales du monde.

C.G.