Rita Daublander
Beauty of transience
Rita Daubländer has been working as a visual artist since 2007, after working in textile crafts with fabric for around 15 years. More freedom and possibilities of materials attracted her to painting. Baking boards, floorboards, found objects and baking paper were her preferred painting surfaces in the early days.
The color scheme of her current work is rather monochromatic. Often they are stories that are “told” by their surroundings: crumbling walls, barren rooms and the aesthetic beauty of decay. Traces of transience.
The artist uses marble powder, pigments, dust from her own house, ash, roofing paint, plaster and other materials hostile to art. In her works she strives for a kind of archaic expression. The process of image creation, such as lines, cracks, seams, injuries, is preserved and documents the living. Perhaps this expresses their unconscious striving to compensate for the too much order, cleanliness and anonymity of our society today.