MULTIPLE PORTRAITS
The unreal portrait as a metaphor of the multi-layered human being is the basic artistic idea of this series. The artist plays with the subject of the portrait and, through the means of deconstruction, embarks on an exciting journey of discovery through people, emotions and her own experiences. This artistic process began with the Multiple Portraits, which combines the complexity of the human being with the help of a multi-layered technique. At the beginning there is a naturalistically painted portrait on canvas, consisting of facial fragments of different people. It symbolizes the different sides of the individual. This is digitally deconstructed, whereby the digital „DNA“ data of the painting (as an allegory to the DNA of the human being) is transformed and potentiated. From the painted archetype, the „mother matrix“, a multitude of „Multiple Abstract Portraits“ are thus created. Altogether there are over 20, partly large-format matrix pictures. It is not about depicting an absolute reality, but about the artistic elaboration of a new identity and new facets.
Martina Ziegler works in a collage-like manner: by splitting and reassembling different facial features, individual personalities emerge, which the artist understands as „daughters“ or „cousins“ of her mother matrix. The same eyes of an archetype work, can later be found in clearly abstracted works. The portraits work on their own, but also relate to each other through this unique creative process. Not only does the „crossover“ approach create a bond between different artistic techniques, the subjects and the artist herself, the portraits come to life: Their DNA lives on in ever new works.
Multiple Portraits / Encounters Diva Remastered
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2019
Multiple Portraits / Alice and Bob / Under the skin III
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto / Mixed Media
2022/23
Multiple Portraits / S.T.E.P.H.
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2019
Multiple Portraits / Face XI
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2015
Multiple Portraits / Face XVI
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2015
Multiple Portraits / Face XX
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto / Mixed Media
2021/22
Multiple Portraits / Behind the Lines
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto / Mixed Media
2019/22
Multiple Portraits / Face II (Became abstract and turn into profile)
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2020
Multiple Portraits / Phoebe I (Matrix)
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting / Acrylic on canvas
2016/23
Multiple Portraits / Knowing Girl
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto / Mixed Media
2016
Multiple Portraits / Who’s That Girl?
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2018
Multiple Portraits / AI on Stage (Single)
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2021/22
Multiple Portraits / AI on Stage / Ensemble AI I / AI II / AI III (What connection do you have with yourself or does this part of you not exist at all?)
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2021
Multiple Portraits / Face VII (Becoming X)
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2017/18
Multiple Portraits / Face II
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2016
Multiple Portraits / Face II (Painting)
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto / Acrylic on Fineart Print
2023
Multiple Portraits / Face II 2
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2015
Multiple Portraits / Leonardo’s Darling
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto / Acrylic on canvas
2019
Multiple Portraits / Collage I
Painting on canvas / Crossover Painting // Metaphoto
2015
Multiples Portrait XI (Matrix)
Arylic on canvas
2015
Multiples Portrait X (Matrix)
Acrylic on canvas
2015