Foyer exhibition Maria Balassa

18. August - 6. Oktober

More than 1,500 drawings of Maria Balassa are inseparable from her life story and recovery. Her drawings are often dominated by imaginary or historical figures depicted in profile or semi-profile - often strong women - surrounded by autobiographically inspired, poetic texts that resolve the blockages of her various life crises and ask about eternal, existential problems. Her creations are usually made on a sheet of paper, on which she places an ink spot with black ink. She sees "visions, figures" in the spots, which she draws with her eyes, then takes out a marker pen and draws the contours and details of the figures with one movement. She colors her figures with colored pencils extremely delicately, but with bright colors. While coloring, sshe remembers the texts, and then he interrupts the coloring and writes them around the drawings with school pearl letters. Her writings are poems, prayers, messages, pleas, confessions of love, angry letters, diary-notes and utopian stories, in which she combines the emotional intensity of her inner life with the universal search for the meaning of life.