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Mária Rimarčíková
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Fine artist, Slovakia "I love surprises when I have a plan in my head and yet the final image is different." I approach my creation instinctively, enjoying the play with layers and color fields. I gradually add layers, colors, shapes, and then take them away, constantly deciding on each next step I take. I listen to classical music while I work. It feels as though I am following my intuition. The creative process fulfills me, even though it is sometimes challenging. I love surprises when I have a plan in my head and yet the final image is different. The abstract expression allows me to convey what I cannot find words for, and even if I find words, I feel deep inside that they sometimes simply aren't enough as a means of expression. And what I love the most is the feeling of satisfaction when I am happy with the painting in the end. I am continuously working my way through and reinforcing the belief that deep human feelings and strong will are more important than mere emotions and sensations, although I do not deny their role in human life. I subconsciously embed my thoughts, experiences, lived realities, desires, and soul discoveries into my paintings, much like the creamy color. I perceive deep connections between the past, present, and future. It's as if they meet/intersect in the present in a specific way. What I experienced in the past influences my present, and how I live the present will affect my future. Above all, it seems most important to me to live the present moment fully and honestly. Perhaps that's why my memories, powerful moments that have influenced my live and creation transferred into my paintings. Mária Rimarčíková (1973) is a Slovak painter who dedicates her work to seeking out the confluence of human existence and the transcendent. She entered the art world as a self-taught artist, and gradually her work evolved towards abstract expression and experimantation with painting, enriched with collage elements. She draws inspiration from nature and installs her paintings in natural environments. Mária perceives nature as space for contemplation, self-reflection, and meditation, qualities that are in opposition to our rushed and overexposed world today. Through her paintings, Mária Rimarčíková therefore invites the viewer to look inward, listen and rediscover inner self. "From each of Mária´s paintings flows a "metaphysical longing" for life, synonymous with beauty, goodness, and truth, even where something unsettling occasionally emerges from the painting itself. The anticipation of eruptive explosiveness, however, the painter realizes in diametrically different, more dynamically conceived compositions. In these, she applies a profoundly dramatic, color and shape contrasting palette-knife style. Despite the independence of Mária's paintings from nature, some directly stem from nature´s essence. Her work draws inspiration from the harmony of natural colors and shapes. Through this, she comes ever closer to spiritual and exclusively mystical content. In these moments, one cannot speak of a specific style or genre, but of an expression of a certain spiritual state, a spiritual category of "sacrum." Such intimate communication between the artist and the Creator can be found across Mária´s work, as an invisible essence of her inner joy and distinctive human and artistic perspective." Mária Kovalčíková, art historian and artist |
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