 
The paintings of Martina Kolle work between the regions of the abstract and the representational where only myths and symbols reside. These symbols sit outside of our regional languages to form a universal, pictorial grammar only accessible through intuition. We see passages of high Modernity in Kolle's compositional moves. Some works pay homage to Georgia O'Keefe's quivering slips of line that flatten out into organic symmetries. We also see the muscular and assertive hard-line geometries of Joseph Stella's late paintings. Moving past the feminine and masculine, Kolle's pictures evade category while offering enough familiarity to be arresting. Her intensely saturated yellows, reds, and blues swirl into vortices, drip with gravity, and expand into an ethereal openness like light reflecting off mist.
Kolle divides her time between Italy and Germany, exhibiting in both countries as well as Turkey and the United States. The internationality of her work is brought forth from her own internality. Having practiced homeopathic therapy for over 15 years, Kolle draws upon her own inner resources to give life and vitality to an art that, in the end, is always her own.
Contemporary German Art: The New York Experience
Reception:
Thursday March 25, 2010 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates:
3/23/2010 - 4/13/2010
Invitation to
Martina Kolle's exhibition
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Rück-Besinnung
Oil on Canvas
31" x 39"
$2000
Rück-Besinnung
Oil on Canvas
31" x 39"
$2000
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Krieg und Frieden im Inneren
Oil on Canvas
31" x 31"
$1800
Krieg und Frieden im Inneren
Oil on Canvas
31" x 31"
$1800
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Mut
Oil on Canvas
39.5" x 19.5"
$1800
Mut
Oil on Canvas
39.5" x 19.5"
$1800
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