Enikő Márton is a Berlin-based artist, a young representative of abstract expressionist painting. Since the beginning of her career, her oil on canvas works have been imbued with lyricism. In terms of the history of painting, Enikő, following the painting principle of the lyrical abstractionists, the emotive tendency of modern painting. Also paints free, emotional, personal compositions, independent of objective reality. By creating simply, freely, without preconceptions about aesthetics or the objective world, she is able to express something unknown through her works.
Her paintings are imaginative, emotional, expressive, personal, passionate and completely subjective, in other words lyrical. Looking at her work, we encounter a serene and optimistic painter, saturated with light and colour.
The main element of her paintings is colour and its dynamic application without a centre. Rhythmic shifts, dramatic effects, counterpoints, zones of stillness and intensification make her imagery a moving world.
She favours the beauty of colour as a positive emotion of life, sharing the early expressionists’ view of colour as “light and energy” (Otto Piene) and “material made susceptible” (Yves Klein). Her vivid art really unfolds inside us. The different colours and dynamics of her paintings are instinctive expressions of Enikő’s moods. She does not plan them in advance, but, by tuning in to the work, they become visible through a partly guided process of “what is”.
Since 2010, she has been working on different theories of space: the experience of space, the perception and representation of space. The external or internal spaces, their transitions, the existence, states and functioning of consciousness in relation to space, have all become elements of her work. By external and internal spaces, she means the identifiable contents of the creator’s perceived reality as external or internal. External space can be anything that the artist perceives as external reality: for example, his or her body, the objects of his or her environment, his or her studio, living space, room, house, city, country, the places where man meets other people… Internal space can be the invisible, imaginary, thought or spiritual, psychic content.
Her works cannot be completely defined or explained. Our inner world, our knowledge and our imagination enter into dialogue with her paintings and read out motifs from the colour dynamics with the effort of an AI image generator, that seem to refer to the physical world: waterfalls, clouds, opening skies, earth, mossy rocks, rainbows, forests, horizons.
Her art is overtly spiritual. Regular meditation plays an important role in the artist’s life. The resulting self-reflection has extended from the level of thought to an interest in perception and the workings of the mind, and this has had a formative influence not only on her life but also on her art. A stage in this evolutionary journey is presented in the solo exhibition The Void is All.
Zita SÁRVÁRI