When one encounters Martina Ziegler’s works for the first time and allows them to take effect without any explanation, one sees portraits of women whose flawless beauty is blurred, disturbed, injured by interventions. Beauty that dissolves and thus gains in fascination. One also glimpses abstract formations moving across the picture surface in gentle waves like dunes in the desert, or cubic, geometric, and architectural-looking compositions covering the surface. Then there are paintings with swirling gradients of color and looping
bands that move in bright colors exuberantly and intertwined across the picture field. Many things When one encounters Martina Ziegler’s works for the first time and allows them to take effect without any explanation, one sees portraits of women whose flawless beauty is blurred, disturbed, injured by interventions. Beauty that dissolves and thus gains in fascination. One also glimpses abstract formations moving across the picture surface in gentle waves like dunes in the desert, or cubic, geometric, and architectural-looking compositions covering the surface. Then there are paintings with swirling gradients of color and looping
bands, which move in bright colors exuberantly and intertwined across the picture field. Many associations are released in the viewer, each glance at a picture offers new discoveries, evokes new trains of thought. Behind this diversity and heterogeneity lies a strict concept and – this is astonishing – always the same motif: each individual work is based on a portrait, which in turn is composed of several facial fragments, so that the image of a person becomes an unreal likeness.