Invisible bodies
Marika Wille-Jais e Bernhard Witsch2nd – 22nd March 2024
opening Saturday 2nd March 2024, h 6 pm
The exhibition Invisible bodies: Marika Wille-Jais and Bernhard Witsch opens on Saturday 2nd March 2024 at 6 pm at the Galleria Immaginaria in Florence.
The double solo exhibition presents the innovative work of two leading artists on the international contemporary art scene.
The South Tyrolean painter Marika Wille-Jais explores the pictorial language through the female nude in which naturalistic atmospheres mix, creating works that enchant and provoke at the same time. Her canvases are a texture of colours, red, bright yellow, white, warm and cold colours, and material layers, cardboard, sand, ash, paper, which transport the viewer on an emotional and sensorial journey.
Next to her, the Austrian sculptor Bernhard Witsch, who carries out his artistic research mainly through metal, recreating shapes and bodies that challenge perception and invite reflection. Bolts, copper disks, geometric shapes, welded together are testimony to his mastery in embodying the essence of the material in forms that embrace abstraction and expressive freedom.
MARIKA WILLIE-JAI
Marika Wille-Jais was born in Hall, Austrian Tyrol. She graduated in 1984 in Stams, from the Zams Pedagogical Academy. She is a teacher of mathematics and art. Since 1987 she has taught in Imst in Tyrol, simultaneously attending art seminars in Austria and abroad. Art Award 2003 from the city of Hollersbach/Austria. Lives and works in Tarrenz, Tyrol – Austria.
BERNHARD WITSCH
Bernhard Witsch was born on March 30, 1961 and baptized without his permission, but to his full satisfaction, on the name Bernhard Witsch.
After working for many years as a mechanic, he decided to put his knowledge and skills regarding metals at the service of art. Thus art became his life (and also his bread).
