RESEARCH
professor maria lalic
My painting practice has three discreet and related areas of enquiry. In all aspects of my work some organising principle outside of painting – time, material, place - is used to focus and develop extant discourses within the history of painting – colour and the Monochrome, objectness and Minimalism, site and Landscape.
In the ‘History Paintings’ series of 53 paintings (1994 – 2004) each painting is made of successive layers of oil glazes of colours organised according to an acknowledged chart of 6 eras’ of invention of colour eg Cave, Egyptian, Greek, Italian, C18/19 th, C20th. The ‘History’ of the titles refers to this history and also by its pictorial facture to the history of Monochrome painting and further through the process, the history of the making of each painting is retrievable.
In the Colour and Metal series ( 1986 - ) I make multi panelled paintings juxtaposing metals panels with monochrome canvasses painted with colours derived from the metal. The paintings are premised on a relationship with C20th painting and sculpture loosely called Minimalism in Britain and America and Konkrete Art in Europe dealing with the material reality of non-figurative painting.
In the ‘Landscape Paintings’ ( 2004 - ) I am concerned to develop a practice that embodies our experience of landscape and extend the discourse of the genre within non representational painting.
Recent Exhibitions:
- 2005 - Colour and Metals. Galerie Renate Bender. Munich. Solo Exhibition
- 2003 - Seeing
Red. On Nonobjective Painting and Color Theory. Hunter College Gallery. Times Square Gallery New York. Group Exhibition. 76 artists including Josef Albers, Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, herman de vries, Joseph Marioni
240 page colour, hard back publication ISBN 3-89770-194-4 - 2002/3 - Classified. Tate Modern
- 2002 - A Szin Onallo Elete. Colour – A Life of its Own. An Exhibition of Hungarian and International Monochrome Painting. Mucsarnok Kunsthalle. Budapest. Hungary. Group Exhibition. 67 artists, including Alan Charlton, Ian Davenport, Callum Innes, Imi Knoebel, Gunther Umberg.
- 2003 - AHRB Research Leave.