©Mariska Karto – 2015
Hahnemahle fine art print
Author: Mariska Karto
Utopia
Foto oplage 10 + 2 AP
100 x 100 cm
120 x 120 cm
150 x 150 cm
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Utopia
There is 1 power equal to death. And that’s love.
As a resistant power to Xenophobia, another power had to be created against all that violence. And that is love.
But be warned… love is very, very close to hate..
It can influence and play with our feelings to the other extreme. That explaines the name Utopia.
Climatechange
Foto oplage 10 + 2 AP
200 x 105 cm
Andere formaten op bestelling verkrijgbaar/ available in other sizes in request
Climatechange
This fresco shows current issues in our society. At first sight, a classical fresco, but on closer look, it shows its time-travel, to our complex issues in current time.
In this contemporary fresco you see a steam pipe. The polluter. Humanity is trapped in the steam pipe pollution, smog/ CO2.
Within the fresco form various stories can be seen visualized in stories of absurdism, surreality, emotions and metaphors.
It is visible, man does not take it serieus with nature, nature is trampled underfoot.
The opposite can also be seen, man who wants to cherish nature, a piece of mushroom (symbolic mushroom) and ultimately has to pay a lot of money for this peace of nature.
The fall through garbage can be seen in the centre of the crowd. The smog that is left behind when we fly, when we travel, by the woman with her travel bag. Pink mushrooms stand for artificial nature but which ultimately do not provide a solution.
Chilling results in waste, which pollutes our environment and creates an unpleasant living environment. There are quarrels, there are fights.
In this contemporary fresco, the diverse consequences and connections made visual of what ultimately happens if we don’t take care of our world and climate.
I consciously chose the shape of a fresco, precisely because CO2 is in the air and the historical fresco is also a means to depict humanity/social community throughout history.
Xenophobia
Foto oplage 10 + 2 AP
Available in following sizes
100 x 100 cm
120 x 120 cm
150 x 150 cm
Xenophobia
Xenophobia arose during a period when things were not going well for me.
In order to resist these dark feelings, in order to process, I have converted it to visualization. At this time there was a dramatic Exodus of refugees to Europe. All the hate, all the darkness, all the fighting I have put them into this work with the aim of giving the refugees a voice of all their despair, the face of death, they had to deal with, every hour.
In the middle of this chaos, in this massive entanglement, there seems to be no solution, hopelessness. No prospects.
But, by placing the viewer outside of the framework of the fresco, another different perspective exist. A perspective which enables us to find tools, right in the middle of this hopelessness.
We find tools to let life win back its territory.
The Hague/ Delft
Edition 10 + 2 AP
92 x 120 cm € 4.950,- inclusive frame / other sizes available
For more info, inquiries, questions you can contact me: mariska.photo@gmail.com
CITY LANDSCAPE I – INFO DEN HAAG/ DELFT
This is my First Citylandscape.
The work The Hague/Delft shows the evolution of Delft and the Hague. Delft, historic city of the royal family and The Hague, city of Dutch gouvernement of the Netherlands. In a way this is a work of Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The influence of the churches in its historical context and the central government role of the Hague , as the guardian of peace in society, which its function is to ensure that there are no issues and quarrels on its tower and home of many people, hard times for this tower in Covid19, at the moment. There is an absence of humans. As if we are looking at a mysterious image just after something has happened. How strangely realistic this vision has become!
(Photo’s Delft, The Hague, Dutch polders, Dutch landscape)
Two Towers
Edition 10 + 2 AP
88 x 120 cm € 4.950,- inclusive frame / other sizes available
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CITY LANDSCAPE III – TWO TOWERS
When looking at the future, changes in climate and landscape will bring new forms of construction. The Netherlands is deep below sea level, will the country have to build higher into the sky?
How will the relationship between city and nature look like? What will be our response to extreme weather?
(Photo’s Friesland, Amsterdam, Den Bosch, Gouda, Delft, Dutch Polders, Mills Kinderdijk/Zeeland, Pijnacker, Lisse bollenvelden and several nature/landscape shots Netherlands)
Europe
Edition 10 + 2 AP
170 x 95 cm € 6.300,- inclusive frame / other sizes available
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CITY LANDSCAPE II – INFO EUROPE (THE COUNTRY EUROPE)
- Citylandscape Europe, a Rembrandt landscape at first sight. But at a closer look , the landscape had a timetravel of 300 years to the transformation of our complex society and its current issues.
How does a landscape of Rembrandt look like 300 years later? I have documented what Rembrandt showed with brush and paint, I did with modern mediums; photography and digital techniques. I photographed photo’s from cities and landscapes all over Europe and combined them in a hyper-collage, into one final image using digital techniques. In this image we recognize Rembrandt’s wordly landscape, influenced by contemporary times.
The work clearly shows progress over the years, but that has also left its mark. New questions arise…How will this affect our landscape…? I photographed the evergreen grass in yellow dry situation in a very dry time here in the Netherlands.
*I also created an animation film of this artwork using. a graphic video editing program and digital photo program.
(Photo's: Brussel, Italy several cities- Tuscaney landscapes, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Delft, Austria Linz, Greece, Spanish Hills, dutch polders, Rotterdam, Venice statues, The Hague, Ardennen woods)
Figures Contemporary Fresco’s / Hyper Photo Collage
Contemporary Fresco’s and large works
I have worked at this project from 2013 till now. My fresco’s tell a story, not a story of a single person, but a story of our world. Our old world and our new world, blended together. It was a lot of work to create them, but only with love for our world, fresco’s, photography and photoshop I was able to re-create the glory of old fresco’s again…
All is photographed and processed by myself (models, surrounding, background, animals, accesoires etc) I want the complete work to exist from my hands and mind. Creating fresco’s are time consuming, it takes about more than a year to create to about a half year. I’m not working in a team, I create alone and all is done by myself.
“In my fresco’s, you can see chaos, melancholy, death and also love asks its sacrifices in most of my fresco’s. That’s what we see with our eyes. In reality, you see the reflection of eternal struggle. (For example: In soulcollector – refugees exploited and Xenophobia speaks for itself…). It’s the battle of life itself, our life, right at this moment – the difficulties in our contemporary life expressed in old masters frescoes.
In the middle of this chaos, in this massive entanglement, there seems to be no solution, hopelessness. No prospects.
But, by placing the viewer outside of the framework of the fresco, another different perspective exist. A perspective which enables us to find tools, right in the middle of this hopelessness.
We find tools to let life win back its territory.
Xenophobia
Xenophobia arose during a period when things were not going well for me.
In order to resist these dark feelings, in order to process, I have converted it to visualization. At this time there was a dramatic Exodus of refugees to Europe. All the hate, all the darkness, all the fighting I have put them into this work with the aim of giving the refugees a voice of all their despair, the face of death, they had to deal with, every hour.
In the middle of this chaos, in this massive entanglement, there seems to be no solution, hopelessness. No prospects.
But, by placing the viewer outside of the framework of the fresco, another different perspective exist. A perspective which enables us to find tools, right in the middle of this hopelessness.
We find tools to let life win back its territory.
Climatechange
In this contemporary fresco you see a steam pipe. The polluter. Humanity is trapped in the steam pipe pollution, smog/ CO2.
Within the fresco form various stories can be seen visualized in stories of absurdism, surreality, emotions and metaphors.
It is visible, man does not take it serieus with nature, nature is trampled underfoot.
The opposite can also be seen, man who wants to cherish nature, a piece of mushroom (symbolic mushroom) and ultimately has to pay a lot of money for this peace of nature.
The fall through garbage can be seen in the centre of the crowd. The smog that is left behind when we fly, when we travel, by the woman with her travel bag. Pink mushrooms stand for artificial nature but which ultimately do not provide a solution.
Chilling results in waste, which pollutes our environment and creates an unpleasant living environment. There are quarrels, there are fights.
In this contemporary fresco, the diverse consequences and connections made visual of what ultimately happens if we don’t take care of our world and climate.
I consciously chose the shape of a fresco, precisely because CO2 is in the air and the historical fresco is also a means to depict humanity/social community throughout history.
Utopia
There is 1 power equal to death. And that’s love.
As a resistant power to Xenophobia, another power had to be created against all that violence. And that is love.
But be warned… love is very, very close to hate..
It can influence and play with our feelings to the other extreme. That explaines the name Utopia.
The Perfume City Grass
It has been a long time since I wrote in this blog. But I will try again:
I am happy my work will participate at the first festival Grasse in Wonderland, Festival de Perfumes and Art, in the town of Grasse, in the hills of Nice.READ MORE