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AKTRICE EDITH EGGER
Imprisioned Oil on Linen 12” x 33.5”
Will She Open the Lock? Oil on Linen 51” x 35.5”
Aktrice at Work in her Studio
Aktrice Edith Egger is a painter of enormous
discipline and vision, intriguing in her talent and in
her contradictions. Her work exists at the crossroads
of disciplines, both modern and classic. Her skills are
immediately apparent, yet her subject and approach resist
simple definition. For instance, Egger displays a great skill
for fine gradations of light and shadow, meanwhile crafting
untamed textures more familiar in Abstract Expressionists.
She composes sensual figures in breathtaking poses, yet
probes deeply into the soul through sensitive portraiture and
still-life. These types of dichotomies exist freely together,
like love and loss of freedom, a familiar thematic element
in Egger’s oeuvre. With the same qualities of drama and
dynamism, Egger explores symbolic meaning through
particular items devoid of contextual information. The rose,
like her figures, presents an emotion like excitement, worry,
or acceptance. The outer edges of her works crackle with
texture and open up a central void where the singular rose
wrapped in chain or tapestry darts across the canvas. With
an amazing talent for rendering texture, whether smooth
flesh, delicate petals, or cold steel, Egger paints the world
with an ambitious realism. In oils or mixed media on linen,
she infuses her works with a distinctive air of drama through
subtle shading, theatrical lighting, and tight cropping.
The great masters in the history of painting have been
a constant source of admiration for Egger. She calls her
personal technique “Simultan Art,” for the manner in which
her subjects project outwards from the painted surface, an
illusory quality only available to persons of great expertise.
“I like to use the elaborate oil-painting technique—now
almost forgotten—of the old masters, in an unmistakable
combination of abstract compositions, in mixed media
worked with a wide variety of materials,” she explains. Egger
has accomplished extensive training in many techniques,
including oil and fresco painting, by teachers in Austria and
Italy. Her paintings have brought international recognition
and have been purchased, published, and exhibited around
the world. Egger presently lives in Obervellach, Austria.
Websites: www.aktrice.obervellach.net
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Aktrice_Edith_Egger.aspx
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