Sonja Streck

My works are painted thoughts, they express what I lack words for – Sonja Streck –

A World Made of Colors

Sonja Streck interprets art as free from any style that is always the same: she is inspired by the artist Gerhard Richter who said that works change like a dress. She likes to work in a fluid way: she does not want to anchor herself to the same creative constraint in the name of a well-defined style.

The connection between the works is made up of color. Sonja, like the painters of the past, loves to mix colors to create her own shades, this is already the beginning of the creative act, so she declared: “for me too, colors are a passion, mixing them and thus drawing new properties from them has fascinated me all my life.

Her first muse was nature, but for this exhibition in particular she was inspired by the colors of Sicily and its landscapes, with the hills, the deep valleys, the cliffs, the abysses of the cliffs.

Allegory and Language

Sonja Streck in all her works has a specific allegorical language that allows to highlight a multifaceted artistic personality. A virtuoso of color, with a complex texture, through brilliant symbolic and chromatic solutions, she manages to create particularly suggestive effects, contours that crumble and recompose themselves, in a perfect geometry, in a fragmentary and dreamy vision. The painted word, in which the pictorial line is transformed, as in a sort of alchemy operation, into extraordinary vertigos of fantasy that merge into a creative parable that, seen in sequence, fascinate… because painting, like music, has its times, rhythms, color, shapes and chords that arise from the artist’s talent.

“When an artist draws a picture that imitates real-world objects, you might say that artist is expressing empathy. He is demonstrating his empathic relationship with the subject by copying it. But long before any of us learned to draw pictures that resemble the real objects around us, we learned to scribble. Scribbling is an impulse. A scribble does not so much imitate reality as it expresses a feeling; a compulsion; a kind of energy.”

– On Abstraction and Empathy, Wilhelm Worringer’s Seminal Work by Phillip Barcio –