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How the world came to be?

 

This body of work deals with the idea of significance and symbolism in nature and landscape that focuses on life and existence. My practice is concerned with formation and identity, and the question of how the world came to be. The landscape itself means freedom, unlocked imagination, thoughts, senses and understanding of the human being in a silent universe.

I am influenced by the symbolism movement in the 20th century, as it attempted to open the door to human consciousness to depict the world from a new point through landscape paintings. Those paintings inform my questioning of identity beyond the visible reality.

In my most recent works, I am depicting a new realm a new world that is closest to us, the Moon. This draws upon my childhood memories and these memories have redirected the recent paintings which now combine cosmology and astronomy with romanticism, to evolve the concept of imaginary cosmologies.

I work with a telescope to develop visual ideas – the Astronomical Telescope, that delivers bright images, ideal for viewing both land and celestial objects. Solar and lunar scientific understanding of light, within the different read of the landscape, through light to dark painting process along within selection of the colour palette to work with juxtaposing colours. Collage experimentation helped me develop my colour palette, compositions and intention ideas that form interesting and enthusiastic work.

The question of “how the world came to be” may be interpreted in different ways. This question underpins my practice and the development of my own imaginary cosmology.

 © Maria Horvathova 2024

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