Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Dancing koi" (2023)
Picture "Dancing koi" (2023)
Mo Fontaine:
Picture "Dancing koi" (2023)
Picture "Dancing koi" (2023)
Quick info
Acrylic | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | framed | Format 60 x 80 cm (H/W) | picture hang up | signed certificate of authenticity
Detailed description
Picture "Dancing koi" (2023)
This motif from the Koimania series is closely related to Zen Buddhist thought: Everything chaotic, secondary, unimportant has been eliminated, so that the "figura" - lifted entirely out of its context and cut off from everything superfluous (Kirè) - becomes a kind of essence. In the Asian world, koi are considered metaphors for happiness and wealth. They are an expression of the flowing qi, but also of the fleetingness of all being.
About Mo Fontaine
Mo Fontaine's work is all about color and its manifold expressions: from subtle to expressive.
In her still lifes, portraits and collages, she combines elements from different cultures and times, because she loves the European art of the old masters as much as the Japanese art of the 17th century. In this way, 'decelerated', magical-sensual images are created, which also transport the discredited concept of beauty. Seen in this light, some of the paintings seem to have 'fallen out of time' - not least because the paintings quite consciously refuse a fundamental category of the avant-gardes: the 'art of artlessness'. The aim is a timeless art that will certainly still function in two or three hundred years. She completed her artistic training at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen.
