EmotionalArtefacts / Face to face
Neue Galerie/ Innsbruck, 2024
The feelings and emotions that Magda Stützer-Tóthová experiences through her motherhood also underly the 11-part series Emotional Artefacts in the central exhibition room. Influenced by a tradition of Bon Buddhism, in which spirits are to be appeased through certain rituals, Stützer-Tóthová works her emotional states into clay objects. These clay masks relate to the images of masks from the slides shown in Fragments and contradictions and can be associated with spirits, and are also a recurring element in her artistic practice. The masks are complemented by objects whose form is reminiscent of worry stones, which calm and relieve tension. They are a sort of placeholder and at the same time relics from the artist's everyday life. Stützer-Tóthová transfers the walls from the video into the gallery by using plaster pink colour to create the spatial framework for the multi-part sculpture Face to face, in which the masks, reminiscent of ghosts, face each other in a friendly manner as mother and daughter and enter into a dialogue. The sculptures are complemented by two further figures positioned between them on the floor. Made by Ella, the artist's daughter, the two Fimo sculptures emphasise the collaboration between mother and daughter on a further level. Just as Ella allows her mother to be part of her artistic work, Magda allows her daughter to take part in her solo exhibition. (Text by Bettina Siegele)
Foto: www.aslans.work
EmotionalArtefacts / Face to face
Neue Galerie/ Innsbruck, 2024
The feelings and emotions that Magda Stützer-Tóthová experiences through her motherhood also underly the 11-part series Emotional Artefacts in the central exhibition room. Influenced by a tradition of Bon Buddhism, in which spirits are to be appeased through certain rituals, Stützer-Tóthová works her emotional states into clay objects. These clay masks relate to the images of masks from the slides shown in Fragments and contradictions and can be associated with spirits, and are also a recurring element in her artistic practice. The masks are complemented by objects whose form is reminiscent of worry stones, which calm and relieve tension. They are a sort of placeholder and at the same time relics from the artist's everyday life. Stützer-Tóthová transfers the walls from the video into the gallery by using plaster pink colour to create the spatial framework for the multi-part sculpture Face to face, in which the masks, reminiscent of ghosts, face each other in a friendly manner as mother and daughter and enter into a dialogue. The sculptures are complemented by two further figures positioned between them on the floor. Made by Ella, the artist's daughter, the two Fimo sculptures emphasise the collaboration between mother and daughter on a further level. Just as Ella allows her mother to be part of her artistic work, Magda allows her daughter to take part in her solo exhibition. (Text by Bettina Siegele)
Foto: www.aslans.work
