between a glass of wine and the fur of a cat
or the midnights of the soul
or ‘heaven is of honey’
loving and thinking and painting
in the morning the rough air of the forest
- on my canvas the colour slowly darkens.'Sonia Gansterer
Sonia
Gansterer about her work:
I move between figuration and abstraction. My pictures are surfaces for the projections of inner sensations and states of the soul – intuitive and associative, often referring to visual impressions and lyrical texts that touch me. While painting I want to reach the boundlessness in me.
The theme that moves me is the fragility of our existence, that can be observed in nature, it’s becoming and passing away. I see humanity as a part of life’s ambivalence between archaic sensuality and the limits of the mind. For me to express visually, it means ‘to think life’. Tender, melancholic, wild.
I move between figuration and abstraction. My pictures are surfaces for the projections of inner sensations and states of the soul – intuitive and associative, often referring to visual impressions and lyrical texts that touch me. While painting I want to reach the boundlessness in me.
The theme that moves me is the fragility of our existence, that can be observed in nature, it’s becoming and passing away. I see humanity as a part of life’s ambivalence between archaic sensuality and the limits of the mind. For me to express visually, it means ‘to think life’. Tender, melancholic, wild.
Mag.
Art. Sonia
Gansterer (1968) grew up in Lower Austria, Kirchberg am Wechsel. She studied Applied Arts at the University of
Vienna. Since 2008 she lives and works in Wegscheid am Kamp, Lower Austria. www.soniagansterer.at
