Posts by Helga Krutzler

A full moon, majestic mountain ranges and a pitch-black night sky - Martin closes the viewer's journey throughout the day with the depiction of the night in “Blindness Between the moon and the lies”.

With 2 x 2 meters, this collage is one of his biggest works to date. For each of his artworks, he imagines the depicted models within an individually created world filled with light and landscape elements. Unlike his typical close-up portrait compositions, in this case, he uses the space to show the viewer the landscape in which he places his main figure.

“SVA” – Three letters that can stand for so many things.

Welcome to PULPO’s Spotlight series. One of the first paintings we see when entering Javier Martin’s current exhibition, is the work behind me. The title “SVA” gives us an immediate clue to the hidden message behind this collage. Martin takes the viewer on a journey to the world of advertising. 

As a contrast to the heavy use of acrylic paint and textile collages in numerous of Judy Rifka’s works, Debris Boys #2 and Modern Dance are two examples with thinly applied oil on linen. Rifka is going away from depicting her subjects with only thick, black lines. The outlines stay but in mixture with bright colors.

Throughout the exhibition the diversity of Rifka’s works from different periods of her career mesmerizes the viewer. The final series shown in her retrospective stand in many regards for a unique artistic exploration.

The two works Pyramid 1 and Pyramid 2 from 1983 belong to the few paintings from Rifka’s oeuvre depicting a specific place. The thick outlines of the pyramids are set in front of a blue and white background. The colors themselves act like three dimensional elements of the work and are coming at the viewer upon a closer look. 

Bright colors, thick, black lines and blurred moves - these three paintings by Judy Rifka immediately transfer us into the wild ‘80s. A decade filled with legendary art events, numerous artist collaborations and a booming party scene in New York.

Guillermo Lorca’s large work is filled with numerous living characters and a nude female figure arising in the middle. 

Beautiful blonde waves, a gracile nude female figure and a mythical scallop shell - In the mid 1480s, the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli changed the art world with his tempera masterpiece The Birth of Venus. His Italian Renaissance artwork set new standards for fine art and inspired artists all over the world in the centuries that followed.

Bright neon colors and big eyes - The Houston-based artist Gao Hang captures a contemporary Venus depiction in his painting Absolutely elegant.