Artist Statement
I am a contemporary painter and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. I create serial, abstract-conceptual works on (or with) paper.
As my paintings/collages are dealing with abstract and philosophical questions, reflecting the principles of creating themselves, the origin process is the central subject of my work.
In this context, I consider the process of image-construction equivalent to the creation of all internal and external "realities".
Accordingly, I view my artistic endeavors as an epistemological, experience-based, and at the same time intuitive method of investigating how any-"thing" ("reality/image") ever occurs.
This also comprises the numerous questions that come along with it: How does something "begin" or "end"? How does a specific connection arise, and how is a narrative constructed? Who is the creating entity? What is a “unit" and how is it formed?
Furthermore, and maybe most important: how can one realise, perceive and even actually SEE the essential unity of everything that appears?
Methodically, my work covers a wide spectrum of aesthetic approaches and concepts, from working methods based on "pure coincidence" to very exact and regulated painting techniques.
Technically speaking my exclusively serial works are based on a mainly painterly and graphic working method, consisting of precise and multi-layered revision on the one hand and a minimalist, randomly-oriented working approach on the other.
Accordingly, in the course of my artistic practice I have cultivated a sort of conscious stylistic eclecticism that enables me to remain receptive to new inspirations and, thus, continuously evolve my "own" style.
To be more specific, I explore the numerous ways of constructing a "reality/image" by using different "formulas" of abstract painting techniques and varied frameworks of actual conditions (in relation to topics like: tempo, dimensions, number of layerings, patterns, color, etc.).
After a certain experimental “set-up”, my creative approach is defined by a high level of contemplation and precision, dedication to what appears, a willingness to go beyond the boundaries of what can be controlled and the ability to let go.
The first phase of construction provides a number of seemingly "different" kinds of “image/realities”, an intense process of "dismemberment" and reassembly follows: with the help of deconstruction and reconstruction of the previously existing, new “image/reality-connections” and “-units” become visible.
Through the clear and unembellished manner in which the final “images/realities” are integrating apparent opposites and contradictions, my work thematizes the unlimited variety of possible “images/realities” on the one hand and the oneness of all of them on the other.
If I had to specify any “goals” in connection with my art, I would most likely define them like this: To see deeper and deeper through the illusion of separateness, to experience unity with WHAT IS on a daily basis and to convey this awareness through my works of art.
Artist Biography
Eva Maria Radlherr
Mag. art
* 02.07.1979
Born in 1997 in Vienna, Austria
Resides and works in Vienna, Austria
Exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions in Austria and Europe.
E.M.R. earned her Master of Fine Arts in Art and Communication Practices at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. (2007, magna cum laude)
In addition she completed a large number of supplementary courses in the academic domains of philosophy and religious studies, as well as multidisciplinary training in other visual and performing art disciplines.
Honoring the versatility and variety of the materials paint and paper, painting emerged as the most essential medium in her work.
Reflecting the principles of creating themselves, E.M.R.’s artistic approach is equivalent to an epistemological, experience-based, and at the same time intuitive method of investigating how any-"thing" ("reality/image") ever occurs.
In connection with philosophical topics regarding the various ways of forming and perceiving internal and external “images/realities”, she cultivated a conscious stylistic eclecticism and an innovative working method, that both are constantly evolving.
By constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing abstract “image-realities”, her exclusively serial works explore the unlimited range of possible “truths” on the one hand and the original and ultimate oneness/unity of all of them on the other.
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