Maria Renger-Patzsch
...my work explores the inner realms of living beings.
-> She seeks to capture animals, plants, and humans within visible structures. For the past five years, she has increasingly turned to traditional painting techniques in order to move away from the petroleum age and avoid plastic/acrylic.
She works with open compositions, fables, and process-oriented forms that invite the viewer to become part of the exploration.
Artistic Approach
Maria Renger-Patzsch’s work explores the inner realms of the living, ranging from animals, plants, and humans to the invisible structures that connect them. Her aim is not merely to depict life, but to make hidden layers, rhythms, and transformations visible and tangible.
For about five years, she has deliberately refrained from using modern, petroleum-based materials such as acrylic or plastic. Instead, she has turned to traditional painting techniques, a conscious decision to counter the age of petroleum. She works with natural pigments, mineral binders, and historical techniques that are not only more ecologically sustainable but also possess a unique, timeless aesthetic.
Her compositions are open, process-driven, and ambiguous. They invite the viewer to become part of the exploration, not as a passive consumer, but as an active co-creator. Through fables, fragments, and traces of the creative process, her works emerge as both precise and fleeting: they tell stories that are constantly evolving and reflect the ambivalence of past, present, and an uncertain future.
In her work, she combines artisanal tradition with conceptual depth.
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