Quest for the Best Originally from Austria, Marco Riha started his long creative journey in Sri Lanka in 1995. After painting and traveling for some years, he found his creative home base in Mexico. André Breton describes Surrealism as ‘psychic...
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Originally from Austria, Marco Riha started his long creative journey in Sri Lanka in 1995. After painting and traveling for some years, he found his creative home base in Mexico.
André Breton describes Surrealism as ‘psychic automatism in its pure state’. For decades Riha has been experimenting with this automatic painting technique, unaware of being a modern-day Surrealist. The self-taught artist drew encouragement from a Québécois resplendent anarchistic art movement called Les Automatistes. Their unacademic, 'total refusal' approach to art provided Riha with a home in art history.
Experimentations with all types of mediums include a long fascination with oils on canvas - a symbolic period filled with therapeutic releases, inner and outer travel logs and first screams in color. The 'colorDrops' series from 2014 mark the beginning of the artist's abstract works. This current period includes socio-political pieces about liberty, tolerance, ecocide, division and unity.
Marco Riha has been published in several international art magazines and his work has been shown worldwide, in venues like the Saatchi and FOLD Gallery in London, the Rome Art Week, Arte Bratislava Castle in Slovakia and most recently with Primo Piano LivinGallery, one of the leading galleries in Southern Italy.
