Wanderer in Pictorial Worlds
Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Hamburg (Germany)
May – July 2009
„By choosing Italy as her second home and artistic residence, and by linking both German and Italian cultural contexts, Angela Mrositzki has fully expressed her artistic vocation. The Marche`s landscape, painting and history have become an important starting point for her artistic activity. Yet, Mrositzki never indulges naïvely in the picturesque sphere and in ist pictorial transformation. First of all she formulates certain artistic ideas, so as to define the textual limits of her work.
The works of her exhibition, entitled Migrants of Images, are based on five distinct components, each of them corresponding to an element: water, air, earth, fire. According to the artist, the fifth element is metamorphosis, to which matter is subject. As Laura Safred said, „without transformation, the four original elements would be an empty space, so metamorphosis is the real actor of painting“. Mrositzki doesn`t express these elements according to certain fixed programmes, but in general, by choosing the colours and the relationship among them, according to symbolic meanings and archetypical forms. On the other hand, each painting expresses the need to realize the single element not only on the symbolic level, but also on the pictorial and artistic one.
Mrositzki doesn`t follow stereotyped methods of representation, but, starting from her own artistic expression, she realizes the accomplished effect of those elements. For example, she uses the technique of transparency with different shades of blue for the representation of the element air, and of course different shades of red for fire. The title of the exhibition represents another basic theme of Mrositzki`s work: instability and movement, metamorphosis, as the artist herself says, that is the permanent change and penetration of reality, which represents the only possible modality.
Mrositzki believes that the artist is the migrant par excellence, an indomitable and curious traveller who considers migration an inner growth and transformation. We must also underline that Mrositzki`s painting is never a mere description of an idea; on the contrary, it is the expression of an energy that comes from the elements themselves. The presentation of fire, for example, is not a narrative representation of fire, but an artistic transcription with a general, not only concrete, meaning.
Mrositzki`s long stay in the Marche represents a very deep significance for her work and life, especially for what concerns the historical phases of Italian culture, which mingle naturally with the artist`s native culture. Although globalization tries to convince us that themes like the relationship between North and South, the Grand Tour, the Journey, have lost their importance, yet Mrositzki`s creative experience shows that authentically creative works can discover both, our outward world (environment and social reality) and our inward world (dreams and symbols).“
Maria Mazza, Director of the Italian Culture Institut, Hamburg
