Yvonne Diefenbach remains faithful to the concept of the artistic experiment, and in her series of works "Tierleben/Animal Life" she deals with the fantastic world of the fauna. In constructed topologies on photographic paper, her creatures form a counterdraft to the numerous large scale, shrill coloured contemporary works of art.
The small, quiet and unique compositions open up a niche within the obtrusive hype of art mainstream and media. The basis for these visual animal stories is a number of rubber and wooden stamps.
Usually, stamps are used to duplicate a certain motif. In this artistic process
however, an image may be found in several stories or as it were, several times on one sheet. Thus, animal schematics become protagonists who act and interact. The stamp as a tool for reproduction is here converted to create unique specimens.

Prof. Cindy Gates