until Monday May 26 2014

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
T : +91 774 10 00
Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid
Spain

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.}