Elly Strik
dal 21/1/2014 al 25/5/2014
Segnalato da
21/1/2014
Elly Strik
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Ghosts, Brides and other Companions. In her intensive, poetic research she explores the potention of metamorphosis and the process of (artistic) creation in which she confronts us with energetic loaded appearances transformed into shapes, portraits and figures on paper, fixed as definitive states of being.
Elly Strik’s works on paper, made with paint and pencil, have subjects as brides, birth, ritual and rebirth, witches and mystici, heaven and dreams, in conversation with aspects from El Greco, Goya, Darwin, Freud, Munch, Ensor or Duchamp. Striks’ approach is archaïc, but in a highly alert way: instinctive, excessive and totally focused on itself.
She finds the form through living the form. In her intensive, poetic research she explores the potention of metamorphosis and the process of (artistic) creation in which she confronts us with energetic loaded appearances transformed into shapes, portraits and figures on paper, fixed as definitive states of being. Constantly shifting between monumentality and intimcy, her mutant figures provide a visual provocation, prompting the viewer to reflect on the condition of today’s mankind, in which the look in the inside and the outside happens simultaneously.
Image: Elly Strik
Hijgende Kraai (Panting Crow), 1992
Oil, lacquer on paper
201 x 319 cm.
Collection Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven
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