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MONIKA BENDNER
SURREALISTIC DIGITAL EXPERIENCES
By Viviana PuelloThrough a digital overlay and collage process, award-winning master artist Monika Bendner creates multilayered, surrealistic experiences through a combination of photographic prints and mixed media. Her compositions which are printed on a variety of materials, create a narrative that evokes emotions and multipleresponses from her viewers.
With a background in photographic design, Monika Bendner’s work has transformed as she’s entered different phases of her growth and developmentas an artist over her active career. Heruse of abstract linesand shapes conveys movement in their dimensionality, and her bold, rich, textured application of color emanates meaning through their saturation.
Viscerally recognizable through theirintensity and layers, Bendner’sworkis diverse and unconventional due to her various materials, methods, and techniques. She creates her work using various alternating combinations of canvas, metallic photo printing, acrylic, glass, photography, and found objects.
Her metallic photographic prints are layered and expressed outside of time and space. She bringsimages into hyper-real kaleidoscope imagery pressed behind a thick acrylic/glass amalgamation. Works such as ‘Frieden: nur mit geklonten wesen’ (Peace: only with Cloned Beings) provide a glimpse into her message. With the common motif of a figurative hand layered in most of her collections, she leaves her work open for interpretation. Bendner created critiqueson modern femininity and definitions of beauty in her Modenschau (Fashion Show) series, with powerful pieces such as /n der Maske, Mannequin, Anprobe (Try On). Her powerful standalone work Boxenluder (Grit Girl).
Visually connecting disparate elements and creating a visually stunning image is the hallmark feature of Bendner’s work throughout her metamorphosis. Her collections of impressive, starkly captivating imagery continue to be thought-provoking and stimulate audiences around the world.
“Lady” Mixed Media Canvas 40”X38”
CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR ARTISTIC STYLE?
“From painting to etching, silhouettes, and photography, I have the PC discovered for me and put my photographed pictures into the editing program and design from it metamorphoses, cycles, with a lot of fun and joy.”
WHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?
“Everywhere in tangible objects, I see other shapes that I sketch, photograph, enter into the PC editing program, and redesign.”
HOW AND WHEN DID YOU DISCOVER YOU WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST?
“I didn’t know it as a kid, but I already had the artist in me.”
WHAT MESSAGE DOES YOUR WORK TRANSMIT TO YOUR AUDIENCE?
“I’m not giving a message; everyone can judge the pictures themselves, whether they like it or not.”
HAS ANY PART OF YOUR STORY INFLUENCED WHAT YOU DO NOW?
“I’ve always had my creativity; nobody influenced me.”
AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
• Palm Art Award: Certificate of EXCELLENCE
• Art Prize Winner Kunst International Stuttgart: graphics/digital/photography
• Kitz AWARD: Certificate of Excellence
• ART tour ARTYA AWARDS
• ATIM COLLECTOR’S CHOISE AWARD
• ARTYA EMERADAWARDS: See you in the Limelight
• ARTYA EMERADAWARDS: See you in the Limelight
“Lady” Mixed Media Canvas 38”X29”
I see the world with different eyes. Because of my imagination and creativity, this is how my somewhat unusual pictures come about if I transform concrete objects into abstract ones. In order to arrive at a corresponding picture statement, I work in cycles.
Monika Bendner
www.monikabendner.wixsite.com
Monika Bendner
Monika Bendner
“The Glass Artist” Metallic Photo Behind Acrylic Glass Portrait
“Blue Hour” Mixed Media Canvas