Literature: Cordula Güdemann/Peter O. Chotjewitz: Cordula Güdemann. 49 VIP's. Simultaneous texts by Peter O. Chotjewitz, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart and Grafenau, Bielefeld 2010, ill. p. 25


The work on the 49 VIPs consistently joins Cordula Güdemann's general oeuvre. With her sensitive awareness of global social problems, the artist opens herself up to central pictorial themes of our present, whereby she is always concerned with the free interrelationships of meaning that flash through the spontaneously thrown masses of color to unite into a coherent whole.
An exact identification of the portrayed faces is not completely possible, respectively is not strived for. Nonetheless, associations with personalities familiar to us come up abruptly. Without pursuing a direct likeness character, the likenesses can be assigned to our current events, above all to the areas of politics, economics, or entertainment, a circumstance that prompted the writer Peter O. Chotjewitz to describe them as "pseudo-portraits" with a "reference to reality. Here, Güdemann skillfully draws on the tradition of the Commedia dell'Arte, using "mask theater" as an image for today's modern world. She tries to make us receptive to what lies behind the facade, the supposedly vital protective shield of our modern times. Are harmony, idyll, happiness, success and well-being merely beautiful appearances?