"Elisa Alberti is quoted as saying “my paintings convey a specific situation”. The Viennese artist with both German and Italian roots realises works in which simple geometrical shapes and gentle monochrome surfaces abound. Within a few years, Alberti has developed an individual and recognisable style of her own: a reduced, minimal repertoire of shapes combined with harmonious colours and curved, softly rounded forms. She stringently repeats elements from painting to painting in both acrylics and enamel paint on either canvas or wood; often large format pieces, but sometimes also smaller pieces, in series of works. Alberti also realises extensive spatial installations as a dialogue between two- and three-dimensionality in an experimental, well thought through manner...

...As an art historian, one shouldn’t make the mistake of trying to find a category to put works like Alberti’s in. Even if she concentrates on a reduced, minimalist visual vocabulary consisting of basic geometrical fundamentals, Alberti does not fit into the confines of past art historical movements. Her imagery draws on an intuitive approach to painting instead of concepts and theories. She sensually plays with a recognisably individual palette of colours and aesthetically-pleasing surfaces, (fragmented) circles and squares, and carries this out in a very individual style which is contemporary, perhaps even timeless."

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Text_ Günther Oberhollenzer