Saša Makarová

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Saša Makarová (born June 13, 1966 in Košice ) is an Austrian - Slovak contemporary painter . Her work can be located between the New Wilds and the Fauvists .

life and work

Alexandra "Saša" Makarová was born in Košice , Slovakia and studied painting from 1987 to 1991 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava ( Vysoká škola výtvarných umení Bratislava ). With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the Iron Curtain, she moved to Austria in 1991 and studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the master class of the painter and sculptor Professor Adolf Frohner , who had shaped Viennese Actionism and, among other things, in 1970 at the Venice Biennale was shown. In 1997 she finished her studies with a scholarship for talented students and a diploma with distinction. Study visits to Nepal , Iran , India , Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia , Burma , Japan and China followed .

Since her first solo exhibition in 1996 in the Stadtturmgalerie in Innsbruck , her works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and trade fair participations, such as the Museum Morsbroich , the Künstlerhaus Wien , the Hilger Gallery , Vienna, the Friedmann-Hahn Gallery , Berlin, and Art Karlsruhe , the Vienna fair and the ARCO Madrid , Madrid . Makarova's oeuvre is a figurative discussion of the topic "Women and femininity". In the form of challenging self-portraits, with pastose applied floral and ornamental elements that are reminiscent of Henri Matisse , but also of the expressive coloring of the Brücke painters . To do this, she works with subjects from myths and fairy tales , with which she creates her own world in her pictures, based on the gestural painting of the Fauves , the Neue Wilden, whose main representatives in Austria was Adolf Frohner, as well as the painter and action artist Hermann Nitsch and Hubert Schmalix . Makarová mixes her own oil colors with intensely luminous pigments, which give her paint application a deliberate graininess. The picture grows out of the canvas, as it were. Echoes, such as the woodcut-like figures and bright, intense colors, are reminiscent of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or Emil Nolde . Makarová's painting is not an art for its own sake . The style, the choice of color and shape is always a conscious means of Makarova to animate the viewer to embark on an emotional journey into the inner life of the artist: The pictures capture intimate scenes of tense ambiguity, clad in the aesthetic cloak of Sensuality. They tell in mythological form of love , dependencies and sexuality , always from the perspective of a self-determined femininity.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2001: Saša Makarová. Love and other cruelties in life , Siemens_artLab, Vienna
  • 2006: Saša Makarová, Hidden Wishes . Museum in the Künstlerhaus Wien , Vienna
  • 2009: Saša Makarová. Sono cosi innocente , Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza, Ferrara
  • 2009: Saša Makarová , Múzeum Vojtecha Löfflera, Košice

Group exhibitions

reception

“When entering Makarová's“ stages ”, she leads us into fantastic novels of color that stumble towards the viewer; a mysterious unrest hovers over it all. Line and sound, color and poetry represent moods and thoughts from a very personal view of human encounters, painted with an independent handwriting and the tendency towards expressiveness inherent in her work. […] The view of the “sailor” under flower-covered branches into the empty glass of life - wherever - shows us the call and the temptation to the duty to recognize eroticism as a basic food. Makarová's images of women are an invitation to strip human flowers, they are an invitation to see this activity as participation in creation. That makes her pictures necessary and unique ... or twice: women are born beautiful. "

- Christian Ludwig Attersee : About the paintings by Saša Makarová, Vienna, October 3 2007

“In search of a way of representing herself and her gender, the painter transforms her medium into a seismogram of individual sensations and at the same time creates opportunities for others to identify with her subjects. Routinely coded in colored surfaces and complex symbols to be deciphered, an original private cosmos unfolds in front of us, in which the tension-filled power and intellectual dynamics of ambivalent meaning are manifested. "

- Jürgen Schilling : About the work of Saša Makarová

" Matisse Jüngerin, I believe great (sic!) Nature: equals art."

- Friederike Mayröcker : Excerpt from a poem by Friederike Mayröcker about Saša Makarová, Vienna

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article about Saša Makarová published in artmagazine - your online art newspaper
  2. ↑ newsId = 35039 Press release from January 2009 published on teknemedia.net
  3. ^ Text on Saša Makarová's website
  4. ↑ Catalog on Saša Makarová, published by the Friedmann-Hahn Gallery
  5. ↑ Complete poem on Saša Makarová's website
personal data
SURNAME Makarová, Saša
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Makarova, Sasa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Slovak painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice