Marieta Chirulescu
Kunsthalle Lingen
Some of Marieta Chirulescu’s picturescreated in finely nuanced pale hues of gray, with faint efflorescences of color that revealed themselves only on a second or third glanceseemed to fade into the spacious white cube of Kunsthalle Lingen. Chirulescu, who was born in Sibiu, Romania, lives in Berlin, and received the Twenty-First Lingener Kunstpreis for painting in 2014. Hers is a uniquely reflective approach to painting: Working with scanners, laser prints, photocopies, collages, and occasionally brush and paint, she interweaves the discourse on the conditions of painting with a