you Know that? You stand on a summit, and all of a sudden the surrounding to take mountains to form. A Rock to the Face, a striking Pointed to the nose of a giant larch trees on Alpine pastures turn into the eyelashes of a beautiful Bergfee. Magic of the imagination.
So similar it must be the US artist Margot Bergman, when viewed landscapes. “I’ve always seen faces,” says the blog, the publicity-shy artist in one of her rare Interviews in the Art.
but Who is the woman who appears at the age of 85 years on the European art radar? At Art Basel in 2017, told the Museum Langmatt-Director Markus Stegmann, did it click: The quirky, naive, painted portraits, drew him into its spell. “So you despair at first appear to be, resting in itself, you are looking at us,” he writes now in the catalog to mountain Mans exhibition, which is shown in Baden, and then in Essen, Museum Folkwang.
Paint yourself taught
The 1934 Chicago-born Bergman leads a normal life. She marries, gets children. Later, the self-taught artist takes painting lessons at the Art Institute of Chicago. At the same time, she scours flea markets, buys pictures by anonymous artists, and repainted them.
So she sets eyes into existing landscapes, from tree roots a Pony to grow and gives the face of the glacier lake-coloured cheeks. Almost trendy looks, with a dash of melancholy and madness, than about the Outsider Art or surrealism sprung. From the cry of a frustrated housewife feminist talk.
art and soul
Only, as is understanding the wide-open mouth of a pale woman, as would have been Munch’s silent scream godfather? The maw makes the view on a curved road in the Wasteland, free, existential needs to close. And if the painter is your characters real name as “Lee”, “Grandma” or “Brenda”, so a good Portion of their own artists behind it as well but the inner soul. Is so, Mrs. Bergman? “I see, I see, and I grow”, they emailed. As simple as that.
more Recently, Bergman signed, by the way, Bunny and fills in the animal body with a blood red poppy flowers. She ceased to paint landscapes. Instead, she sits in front of a blank canvas and paints, without the Complicity of anonymous Amateur artists. In A Large Format.
long-Matt
Baden, römerstr. 30
opening Saturday 17 PM To 28.4.
Fr 22.3., 17 PM: “Long years up to the light: artists and their belated recognition”.
Talk with “Züritipp”critic, Feli Schindler, and Museum Director Markus Stegmann.
www.langmatt.ch
(Züritipp)
Created: 28.02.2019, 14:56 PM