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Aktrice at Work in her Studio
Aktrice is a painter of enormous discipline and vision, intriguing in her talent and in her contradictions. Her work exists at the crossroads of disciplines, both modern and classic. Her skills are immediately apparent, yet her subject and approach resist simple definition. For instance, Egger displays a great skill for fine gradations of light and shadow, meanwhile crafting untamed textures more familiar in Abstract Expressionists. She composes sensual figures in breathtaking poses, yet probes deeply into the soul through sensitive portraiture and still-life. These types of dichotomies exist freely together, like love and loss of freedom, a familiar thematic element in Egger’s oeuvre. With the same qualities of drama and dynamism, Egger explores symbolic meaning through particular items devoid of contextual information. The rose, like her figures, presents an emotion like excitement, worry, or acceptance. The outer edges of her works crackle with texture and open up a central void where the singular rose wrapped in chain or tapestry darts across the canvas. With an amazing talent for rendering texture, whether smooth flesh, delicate petals, or cold steel, Egger paints the world with an ambitious realism. In oils or mixed media on linen, she infuses her works with a distinctive air of drama through subtle shading, theatrical lighting, and tight cropping.
The great masters in the history of painting have been a constant source of admiration for Egger. She calls her personal technique "Simultan Art," for the manner in which her subjects project outwards from the painted surface, an illusory quality only available to persons of great expertise. “I like to use the elaborate oil-painting technique — now almost forgotten — of the old masters, in an unmistakable combination of abstract compositions, in mixed media worked with a wide variety of materials,” she explains. Egger has accomplished extensive training in many techniques, including oil and fresco painting, by teachers in Austria and Italy. Her paintings have brought international recognition and have been purchased, published, and exhibited around the world. Egger presently lives in Obervellach, Austria.
www.aktrice.obervellach.net
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Aktrice_Edith_Egger.aspx
Will She Open the Lock? - Oil on Linen 51'' x 35.5''
Imprisioned - Oil on Linen 12'' x 33.5''
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