"In this century 90 percent of all inventions have been made, and I spend my afternoon in company of two lemons." Despite she denies a certain absurdity in her work, Anna Keel (born 1940 in Chemnitz) paints, since she started - out of boredom - copying the paintings on the wall and to caricature the few visitors of the gallery in Zurich she worked for. Au-pair jobs brought her to Paris and London, where she studied at the Hammersmith School of Art & Building in the afternoon. Back in Zurich she became scholar of the painter Albert Pfister (1964-66). In 1971 first one-person show of her paintings and drawings in Zurich. Further exhibitions following: for example 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1995 in the Roswitha Haftmann Gallery, Zurich, 1987 in the Galeria Philippe Daverio, Milan, 1991 and 1995 Compagnia del Disegno, Milan, 1983 Villa Stuck, Munich, 1988 Folkwang-Museum, Essen and participation in various group shows, for example 1977 at the "Salon d'Automne", Paris (with Jim Dine, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj a.o.), or 1979 at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 1979 ("La famille des portraits" with Fermin Aguayo, Andy Warhol, Christian Zeimert a.o.). In 1984 scholarship at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Anna Keel lives and works in Zurich. "There is a group of draughtsman neither united by their individual style nor through their cultural background. It is more a sort of bless: one can feel it, is aware of it, admire it - there is no explanation", says Jean Clair about Anna Keel. Federico Fellini called her "a psychoanalyst, that does not want to scare you ". "Painting is never scheming. Painting narrates - two lemons as good as a portrait - from fear, from our loneliness, our despair and melancholy, but also from sympathy, our sense of humor and irony and our enthusiasm for beauty and truth. I dream of painting the way it should be today: beautiful, intelligent, emotional and visionary, fictitious, but also normal and natural without being boring and dull. The one sentence by Alfred Kubin comforts me: He supposed to have begged to his doctor on his death-bed: "For Christ's sake, doctor, do not take fear from me, it is my biggest asset." A fully illustrated catalogue will be published at DuMont publisher, Cologne, English and German edition, 192 pages, softcover, 31 x 26 cm, Fr. 42.90 / Euro 24.90, ISBN 3-8321-7310-2 (German). The show will remain on view through Saturday, March 12, 2005 at the Jamileh Weber Gallery, Waldmannstrasse 6, CH-8001 Zurich. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm and by appointment. For further information or photographs please contact the gallery, phone: +41-1-252 10 66, fax: +41-1-252 11 32 email: info@jamilehweber.com, www.jamilehweber.com