Spiritual World, Out Of The Box Style

It's a new day, a new possibility to spend it in the world of art, which is always a nice option for me. Three days ago I posted about an exhibition in a new place, that I liked a lot. This new, unconventional exhibition room gave home to Emőke László's wonderful artwork collection.

As I mentioned in my previous post, here, her art was a total surprise, out of the box thinking and interpretation of life, feelings, relationships and so on. Today I'd like to show you the rest of the paintings I had the pleasure to enjoy at the venue.

Mary's Tears

The painting can appear confusing, but we're talking about Mary, mother of Jesus here. Over the years I've seen countless artworks about Saint Mary, but this is the most out of the box one by far. Green hair, eyeshadow and lipstick is not exactly the standard look of Mary, but out of the box doesn't mean traditional. Most likely my knowledge about art is not enough to understand it completely, but I think those tiny people at the bottom of the canvas are us and the ratio between us and Mary shows how powerful she is.

Freedom

Hopefully this one is pretty obvious and you don't need any explanation to understand what the artist meant. If not, let me know as I can be at your service. Maybe you remember my previous post, in which there were several paintings with my two favorite colors dominating, like here. Mixed medium is not a rarity when it comes to artworks, especially paintings, but I've never seen wire mesh used below. It's a brilliant illustration of freedom.

Feith

est autem spernarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparenium

This is what the message on the painting is. It's Latin of course. What does it mean?

but it is the substance of things, not the argument of appearances

This is a powerful message, for me it means more than you can imagine. It aligns with one of my mottos I have in life. I learnt and adopted it during my uni years and serves me well.

As about the painting, look at the simplicity of the execution, the minimalist color combination. You don't need much to get your message out there and this painting proves it. It's simple, but powerful.

Prayer Time

The first thing that I noticed looking at this painting was the few figures standing out. The red, yellow and blue ones, but mostly the red figures as that color is more visible than the others, for me at least. Then I had a closer look, to see if that was the intention of the artist and saw it wasn't.

This sea of people was a bit confusing at first as you don't see scenes like that around here. Prayers are done in the church and this scene doesn't seem to take place in a church. Then I realized most likely they are Muslims praying.

There's one mass prayer I know in Transylvania, which takes place at Csíksomlyó (Șumuleu in Romanian) at Pentecost. Thousands of pilgrims are gathering there to pray. I've never participated as I'm not a Catholic, but I'd like to, one day, to experience the feeling. Once I've read a comment made by a woman from Hungary, who took part at the event and said, she would have never thought so many people could ever stand together in such a silence and pray. That's what I see in this painting. People of all kinds, got together for the same cause. I've seen many prayer paintings but never one like this. Artists tend to focus on individuals and their emotions, but here the power of the community dominates over the individual. Basically no one is standing out, those bright colors are a bit of a distraction, but I suppose were not chosen to mark people standing out. Interesting.

Breakdown

I loved this one the minute I saw it, without even knowing what the title was. Unfortunately the condition is a widespread one today, but you don't see artists using the topic.

This minimalist representation speaks volume in my opinion. The dark colors used by the artist are matching the topic perfectly. I suppose no further words are needed here.

Crossing

Another brilliant one, minimalist, but very expressive.

Akasha Field

Akasha or Akash (Sanskrit ākāśa आकाश) means space or sky or aether in traditional Indian cosmology, depending on the religion. The term has also been adopted in Western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century. In many modern Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages the corresponding word (often rendered Akash) retains a generic meaning of "sky". source

This concept is new to me as I'm not into this religion, but after reading about it, I can see why the artist chose the blue box to cover the upper part of the body. If the generic meaning is sky, then this is perfect. In this case, out of the box means using a box, but it's ok in my opinion.

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Gate To The Sky

This can also have a deep spiritual meaning, if you know how to read it. At first glance, if you don't count the spiritual meaning, could look like an elevator, with the top open, but obviously it's not.

Looking Over

I suppose this is a series of four paintings, connected to each other through the characters and the spiritual meaning. If you look at this one above, it symbolizes two worlds, one being represented by the blue sky. Once the line crossed, the human body changes its composition. If you go back to the first and the second one, this is exactly what you see. I'm not totally familiar with the topic, but I love how the artist chose to illustrate it on canvas.

A totally different painting, that has no connection whatsoever, with the previous ones.

This part of he exhibition had a deep spiritual meaning, this is why I wanted to separate these paintings from the previous one.

I hope you like them.

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