Rita Daublander
Beauty of transience
Rita Daublander
Rita Daubländer has been working as a visual artist since 2007, after working with fabric in textile arts and crafts for around 15 years. The greater freedom and possibilities of the materials drew her to painting. Baking boards, floorboards, found objects and baking paper were her preferred painting surfaces in the early days. The colour scheme of her current works is rather monochromatic.
Often there 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, roof varnish, plaster and other materials that are hostile to art. In her works she strives for a kind of archaic expression. The process of creating the image, such as lines, cracks, seams and injuries, is preserved and documents the living. Perhaps this expresses her unconscious striving to create a balance for the excessive order, cleanliness and anonymity of our modern society.
