OIL PAINTINGS
Marion Avanzini
Series 2002 – 2025
I.
Appropriate
11 Oil paintings, 2003 - 2006
The series is inspired by a text by Ingeborg Bachmann: “It caught my eye. We say this not because we have perceived an external object or event, but because we apprehend that which we cannot yet see. And that is what art should achieve: that our eyes are caught in this way…” (Ingeborg Bachmann, Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar [The Truth is Appropriate for People])
Down the Rabbit Hole 1
Mixed media on canvas
,
2003
70 x 50 cm
Down the Rabbit Hole 2
Mixed media on canvas
,
2003
70 x 50 cm
Down the Rabbit Hole 3
Mixed media on canvas
,
2003
70 x 50 cm
Down the Rabbit Hole – gesamt
Mixed media on canvas
,
2003
70 x 150 cm
Revolution Evolution Deconstruction
Mixed media on canvas
,
2005
150 x 250 cm
No Exit
Mixed media on canvas
,
2005
160 x 80 cm
Not You
Mixed media on canvas
,
2006
120 x 80 cm
Out of the Blue
Mixed media on canvas
,
2005
120 x 80 cm
Down by the Water
Mixed media on canvas
,
2005
120 x 80 cm
For E
Mixed media on canvas
,
2004
120 x 70 cm
Lost Highway
Mixed media on canvas
,
2004
100 x 100 cm
II.
Micro Cuts
3 Oil paintings, 2008-2010
Canvases responding to being harmed; painting as an “imposition” (hands are red with your blame / a blade cuts in your brain… ). The title is from a song by the band Muse, with images like “sounds like forks on a plate” and “blackboard scratched with hate” reminiscent of the sound made by a spatula scraping the canvas. The first series of these large-format works was produced between 2008 and 2010.
III.
Where It Begins to End
8 Oil paintings, 2002 - 2005
Words are left between the layers of colour, do not need to be read, speak for themselves: “…where I begin to end, where I cease to belong.” (Ingeborg Bachmann). Fragments of speech, buried between the thick layers of red, often cannot be deciphered and so can be understood rather as hidden messages.
Tribute to Ingeborg Pt II
Mixed media on canvas
,
2002
210 x 100 cm
Tribute to Ingeborg Pt I
Mixed media on canvas
,
2002
100 x 210 cm
Ohne Hirn
Mixed media on canvas
,
2004
100 x 100 cm
Ohne Text
Mixed media on canvas
,
2004
80 x 80 cm
Endless
Mixed media on canvas
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2005
140 x 190 cm
Ohne Mich
Mixed media on canvas
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2005
100 x 120 cm
Ohne Ziel
Mixed media on canvas
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2005
100 x 120 cm
Ohne Sie
Mixed media on canvas
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2005
120 x 70 cm
IV.
Hearts Remaining in Dust
7 Oil paintings, 2002 - 2018
“In the contradiction of the impossible and the possible, we expand our possibilities… so that we move towards a goal which, of course, as we approach it, becomes yet more distant” (Ingeborg Bachmann, The Truth is Appropriate for People). A picture to be experienced as a multidimensional moment: background and foreground weave together into two levels that cover and reveal each other.
Du wirst mich lieben
Mixed media on canvas
,
2002
120 x 120 cm
Postcardiotomie
Mixed media on canvas
,
2003
100 x 100 cm
s-h-e
Mixed media on canvas
,
2003
140 x 120 cm
Herzen im Staub
Mixed media on canvas
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2008
100 x 200 cm
La Familia
Mixed media on canvas
,
2012
135 x 220 cm
All Beauty
Mixed media on canvas
,
2013
180 x 120 cm
In die Mulde meiner Stummheit
Mixed media on canvas
,
2018
50 x 100 cm
V.
As it was
9 Oil paintings, 2020 - 2024
This series, comprising oil paintings and drawings, came together during and after the Corona pandemic – a time defined by radical changes The title, inspired by a song by the band AnnenMayKantereit, is meant to convey the feeling of irreversible change. The works deal with the irrevocable transformation of the familiar, and illustrate the rupture between “then” and “now”.
Cov19 Rupture
oil on canvas
,
2002
120 x 120 cm
Alternative Channels
Öl auf Leinwand
,
2021
100 x 200 cm
No Joy in Repetition
oil on canvas
,
2021
100 x 100 cm
Follow the Queen
oil on canvas
,
2022
80 x 80 cm
Brain Fog
oil on canvas
,
2023
100 x 100 cm
Discovering new Paths
oil on canvas
,
2024
100×100
Where is Your Heart
Oil on canvas
,
2024
80 x 120 cm
Where is Your Heart Pt I
Oil on canvas
,
2024
80 x 80 cm
Where is Your Heart Pt II
Oil on canvas
,
2024
80 x 40 cm