Art Festival Palazzo Lorenzetti
52043 Castiglion Fiorentino/ Arezzo, Toskana, Italien
30. April – 14. Mai 2023
https://www.cfpf.eu/it/content/47-elisabeth-sula
In her highly contemplative fine art practice, Elisabeth Sula finds frequent inspiration in her previous studies in philosophy, with series that indirectly question ways of seeing and of understanding the connection between the self and society. Her paintings merge elements of metaphysical inquiry with spiritual exploration, drawn in part from her many years spent in India.
Sula looks to the wider history of challenges to humanity’s status quo, and considers what we can do to protect ourselves against threats both physically and psychologically, as agents, not victims.
The sense of formal and aesthetic balance within these works stands in direct opposition to the imbalance that Sula suggests is a result of the suppression of feminine qualities in women and men alike, key among which are empathy and compassion. Sula’s riotous use of color, drawn from Eastern, particularly Indian color palettes, becomes a symbol of the richly saturated world that lies beyond the limits of our present vision—the natural order that has always been underlying but subdued. Meanwhile, text weaves in the displayed works, the phrases less commands than koans, invitations to join the artist on this journey of at once personal and societal reckoning, out of which a new avant-garde of consciousness just might arise.
Elizabeth Breiner
Art Critic, London, June 2021
