Elisa Alberti »abstract relationships«

abstract relationships (2022)

For creating her series abstract relationships (2022), consisting of 16 works, Elisa Alberti, who typically works on canvas or wooden blocks in her artistic practice, has dealt with ceramics as a medium for the first time. As known from her other works, Alberti also varies and adapts her characteristic forms in their color and composition and establishes relationships between the individual works. However, in this case, an unexpected element of imperfection arises from the special materiality of clay and the unpredictability inherent to the firing process, evocative of Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese aesthetic way of thinking that is closely associated with Zen Buddhism that uses the state of imperfection for the perception of beauty and that can be found in many arts from Japan such as Japanese garden design, bonsai, Ikebana, or Japanese ceramics.

Elisa Alberti

Elisa Albert's (*1992, Kiel) work is characterized by an abstract geometric language of forms. Strict and accurately executed curved surfaces, which are kept in a delicate and nuanced color palette, and are repeatedly interrupted by rich black, white or warm gray tones, shape the aesthetics of her paintings. The composed flat curves seem to influence each other, and indeed, the artist, who likes to think in series, intends to create a reaction between the works as well as to establish references among them. The painterly and graphic idea has always been present in Alberti's work, initially manifesting itself in figurative motifs such as organic forms, reminiscent of plants, in connection with abstract forms. However, Alberti gradually moved away from the representational and developed her work towards reduced abstraction.

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