Martina Kolle
Contemporary German Art: The New York Experience
March 23 - April 13, 2010
Reception:
Thursday March 25, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
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.
Artist Statement
During my long-lived therapeutical experiences as a homeopath, balance has always been my main topic, especially its effects on the human spirit, body and soul. My oil on canvas paintings are compensators. Every topic, the colours and composition of each single painting, are given to me in quiescence and are then transferred onto canvas. The interplay of the objective and the non–objective generates tension: You can find patterns if you look for them, but the real importance lies in the disconnection of the painting from possible associations. Apart from their positive effects on the atmosphere in the room, the painting also leads the viewer to his own inner life and feelings. If a painting appeals to someone in such a way, there is an inner resonance to the topic and the viewer finds mental balance at a deep emotional level.
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