Jolanda Richter - Video


Work of immense poetic beauty filled with meaning. Beautiful and sensual people hover in the air, amidst an anti-gravitational ballet, with semi-naked bodies, stripped from preconceptions in a liberating flight. Jolanda’s painting is an allegory, her figurative representation conveys a meaning that is much deeper than what is actually depicted. It’s like a figure of speech that targets our eyes, sustaining itself for longer and in a more fulfilling way than just a plain metaphor; it persistently summons our imagination, just like an analogy calls for rationalisation.

In a literal Renaissance, her figures seem to free themselves from the monuments, columns and Renaissance ceilings, from where they jump into a rejuvenating flight, leaving behind them a trace of freshness enhanced by their colourful vests. It’s as if the statues and the paintings were released in order to experience human life, leaving behind them a petrified past, imprisoned in an inhuman condition.

With great pleasure and joy, they are freeing themselves from an eternal sentence that is reflected in their faces and postures. An acrobatic flight which cherishes a new condition. On the other hand, some beings, still trapped in stone, show their worried frowns and mysterious countenances, frightened by their condition.

Like in a ballet, the intense colours of their clothes accentuate their movement in contrast with the monochromatic, inanimate and cold world that is made of stone. The colour gets impregnated with light and vitality, hence reflecting the energy and the feelings of her divas.

Her painting induces in us the willingness to taste freedom’s weightlessness, the impulse to cut our moorings, joining them in a libertine flight.

By Pedro Boaventura • Excerpt from Masters of Painting - Volume 1




 
Jolanda Richter was born in Holland in 1971, grew up in Vienna, and began to study music and painting very early. At the age of seventeen she studied violoncello at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Following her true passion, she devoted her artistic work to painting over time. She studied at the 'University of Applied Arts Vienna', painting and graphic arts, and successfully completed her studies in 1999. With her unusual pictures, success and a broad echo of her work quickly became apparent. International awards and first prizes followed. Countless individual exhibitions and exhibitions involved her through Europe and the USA. She lives and works as a freelance artist in Lower Austria, Austria.

"She is one of the profiled figural painters in Austria. Their striking capacity lies in the convincing presence of the human figure in cleverly designed magically unreal dispositives of space and time and a very personal psychological coloring (by Univ. Prof. Uli Gansert).

"She talks about her childhood, mental scars, fears, but also about desires, dreams and hopes. The source point, however, is not the dreams of the day, but the admitting of the night-consciousness, that is, affective reflections without finiteness. One could describe their work as catathymic, imaginative autochthonous creations, which exist independently of the usual market trend (By Prof. Gotthard Fellerer).
• 2013 Art fair ART-EN-CAPITAL – Grand Palais, Paris, France

• 2013 Beskidian Art Gallery, Szczyrk, Poland

• 2013 'SAFE 2013′, 8. Salon de l'Art Européen, Le Mont-Dore, France

• 2013 Stadtmuseum St.Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria 

• 2013 'Kunst für Menschen in Not', Charity Event, Stift Melk, Lower Austria, Austria

• 2013 Contemporary Gallery, 1010 Vienna, Austria

• 2012 Beskidian Art Gallery, Szczyrk, Poland

• 2012 Galerie Akum, Vienna, Austria 

• 2012 Galerie im Donemig-Haus, Vienna, Austria

• 2012 Stadtmuseum St.Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria  

• 2012 "AUSTROnauten", PhanART – Phantastische Kunst Viechtach. Germany  

• 2011 Beskidian Art Gallery, Szczyrk, Poland

• 2011 Galerie Akum, Vienna, Austria 

• 2011 Kleine Galerie, Vienna, Austria 

• 2011 '4th Annual Human Form Show', The Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Mo, USA

• 2011 Hilleroed Library, Ausstellungsbeteiligung. Copenhagen, Denmark

• 2010 Galerie Palais Palffy, Vienna, Austria

• 2010 Galerie Akum, Vienna, Austria 

• 2009  'SAFE 2009′, 4e Salon de l'Art Européen, Les Thermes du Mont-Dore, France  

• 2009 Domgalerie, Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, Austria

• 2008 Domgalerie, Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, Austria

• 2008 Galerie Akum, Vienna, Austria

• 2008 'Dreamscape' – 'Loods 6′, Amsterdam, Niederlande  

• 2007 'Atelier an der Donau', Landhausgalerie Ausstellungsbrücke, St. Pölten, Austria, Lower Austria

• 2007 Galerie Akum, Vienna, Austria

• 2006 Galerie Altes Sudhaus, Kelheim, Germany

• 2006 Galerie Akum, Vienna, Austria

• 2005 'Natural History Museum Vienna', Vienna, Austria  

• 2005 Galerie Castillon, Côte D'Azur, France

• 2005 Egon Schiele-Museum, Tulln a.d. Donau, Lower Austria, Austria

• 2004 Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, NY, USA  

• 2004 Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Florida, USA

• 2004 Galerie 10, Vienna, Austria

• 2003 'Greenhouse Gallery', San Antonio, USA  

• 2002 Wienerwaldmuseum, Lower Austria, Austria 
• 2013 1st PRIZE WINNER in the '8. Salon de l'Art Fantastique Européen 2013′ – SAFE 2013. Le Mont-Dore, France.

• 2013 'Tullnerfelder Kulturpreis für Malerei', Austria 

• 2010 Diploma of excellence (Honorable Award), '9th FEMALE ARTIST'S', Art Addiction Gallery, London

• 2009 2nd PRIZE WINNER in 'In Vision', ARTROM Gallery, International Art Competition, Rome, Italy 

• 2009 3rd PRIZE WINNER in 'SAFE 2009', 4e Salon de l'Art Fantastique Européen, France

• 2008 'Award Of Distinction', in 'Kunst für Menschen in Not', Austria 

• 2005 1st PRIZE WINNER in the 'International Art Contest 2005', Realism, Australia 

• 2004 1st PRIZE WINNER in the '17th International Exhibition of Animals in Art' at the Louisiana State University, USA

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2003 1st PRIZE WINNER in 'Access to Active Art Competition', United Kingdom
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