Anita Mathe

“The World doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictured that do” (Pablo Picasso)

The artist Anita Mathe has found her passion but also self-affirmation in art. On a path of inner research, she was able to give voice to her emotions through drawing and painting. Thanks also to her interest in architecture, her personality and colour palette have been enriched with cues, styles and interpretations through the study of history and time. Anita Mathe tries to express the contents of her paintings in the free composition of lines, shapes and colours, with references to the outside world. The lyricism of her work African Beauty stems from the poetic use of colour which, like music, produces emotions and moods. In this way, the artistic research develops on two distinct planes but which run in the same direction, the search for emotions of the artist himself and the search for emotions of those who are involved in looking at his creations. Through the deconstruction and modification of reality, the artist arrives at proposing a meaning based on the evocation of the senses; she starts with primordial signs and investigates their perception within us, the artist of the abstract, then skilfully coordinates the elements to amplify one sensation at the expense of another. Anita's art tends to tell a story behind any image of which we can imagine the moment, the before and after. We feel a mysterious familiarity through her strokes. The more one is able to detach oneself from the figurative, the more one can be drawn into a code of sensations and moods. The depiction of reality remains but concerns an invisible and personal sphere. These are more existential concepts, in which we place ourselves with our sensitivity and in a certain sense respond to sensations that we do not normally have the opportunity to listen to carefully. Finally, we can say that in order to communicate, the artist tries to break down certain recognisable natural forms, to introduce a meaning made of colours and shapes that follow a design made up of visual sensations in which emotions are let through the canvas in a more concentrated manner and without intermediaries, in a different and more interior language that concerns emotions and the very idea of life.

Art Curator Giulia Fontanesi