Elisabeth Agostini

Layers of the soul - layers of consciousness - layers of overlapping materials, interwoven in transcendent - relentless search of the essential: the works of Elisabeth Agostini.

Art as the fruit of ability versus art as lore and embodiment of the knowledge of hidden realities, suffered without comfortable circumvention. These works are void of such contrapositions.
Colours - in terms of colourfulness - are mostly used sparingly and avoid exteriorized inebriation. This induces the viewer to enter into a state of heightened associative attention and does not negate the artist’s ponderings and grapplings and concernment in resolving the themes which impose themselves upon her or which she challenges herself with.

Beyond provocative Zeitgeist or blatant sensationalism, Elisabeth Agostini explores multi-layeredness for solutions. The elemental is conveyed very tangibly, which explains her works’ strong, static vibrancy. They hold information and instructions, but also open questions, equally multi-layered as their physical structure.

The viewer is impressed equally by past and future, often assisted by the materials used.
The flow of forms over nearly dematerialized-looking handmade paper from Nepal, over cardboard, canvas or panel, often seems to be guided by a delicate chiselling with which the artist insightfully describes the inner worlds she has regarded, or leaves them veiled in subtle symbolism. Here and there, the contours lose themselves under a rough glimmer of quartz sand suggestive of the third dimension.

Elisabeth Agostini distills traces of experience as visual vibrations from her communications with her inner self, with her surroundings and with the artistic “tools” she makes use of. Vibrations that are not captured and intensified as a single occurrence, but rather are brought into the context of a harmonious perceptive visualization that in turn is created solely by means of personal experience - ultimately the artist’s encompassing stand-point.