ABSTRACT PERSONALITIES

The metamorphosis to abstraction is often an inevitable process in art. All at once the ideal-typical face disappears as an object of artistic interest.
It is true that abstraction is not a new invention. What is new, however, is the result – the personal state of the art that Martina Ziegler reveals with her aesthetic work. The artist gives a hint by means of her picture titles. They remain portraits. For the original matter from which she draws her current portraits consists of the digital data of her paintings, which she executed in the traditional manner with a brush in acrylic on canvas. She combines analog painting with modern digitality and describes this concept of «crossover painting» as an «intertwining of intuitive painterly imagination and digital deconstruction.» This is also how the terms «magic double helix» and «metafoto» came into being, among others, which describe the core idea of Martina Ziegler’s work.