South likes: Mantalina Psoma at Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin

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Mantalina Psoma, Middle Daughter, 2013, oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm, Courtesy of Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin

South likes: Mantalina Psoma at Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin
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Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin, Germany
14 February – 26 April, 2014

Eerily quiet is the new solo show by Greek artist Mantalina Psoma in Berlin. An atmosphere of eerie quietness is indeed something that distinguishes the paintings of the Berlin-based artist, spanning from 2010 to 2013. Influenced by a group of painters including Hockney and Vermeer, Psoma treats her subjects in such a way that her canvases resemble cinematic photographs. The figures she portrays could be the protagonists of yet-to-be-guessed narratives, seeking the viewers’ gaze at instants of key dramatic significance. However, imagining a narrative becomes a process of continuous impasse. For the juxtaposition of the figures and the surrounding environments are conflictual or even antithetical, as is mostly evident in It wasn’t me. Perhaps the most eerie element about Psoma’s paintings is the fact that they strongly suggest autobiographical elements in what seems to be a simultaneous denial of autobiography as an end in itself.

Angeliki Roussou

http://weigand.info/en/artists/mantalina-psoma/exhibitions/eerily-quiet-2014.html

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Mantalina Psoma, eerily quiet, February – April 2014, Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin

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Mantalina Psoma, eerily quiet, February – April 2014, Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin

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Mantalina Psoma, eerily quiet, February – April 2014, Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin

 

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