Mária Rimarčíková has always been inspired by the world around her, intensely perceptive about shape, structure and colour, about the shimmering effect of light, and the diversity of materials and textures. She saw in this potential artistic tools, with which she could creatively model and subsequently express her own feelings, experiences, dreams and visions of how the surrounding world and life could appear. Initially, this creative process was just a game of color and shape, a mosaic of diverse details, crafted by playful childhood euphoria: an enthusiasm for newly invented realities, pictorial compositions, and mysterious potential meanings and contexts.
Gradually,
as part of her work duties and daily life all these imaginative inner stirrings
settled down. However, this visual imagination remained deeply embedded in her
subconscious memories, and over time it became impossible to deny its
existence.
Beginnings of Artistic Creation (Encounters with Creative Minds)
In 2006, Mária attended an art course led by Jozef Kurinec. In this creative space, she learned to draw everyday objects from life. Gradually, she also mastered the proportions of the human body, face and hands, and studied expressions, gestures, movement, and the structures of everything around her.
Mária continued to perfect her painting techniques in the studio of Katarína Bőhmová, where she built up the essence of her artistic talent. She created several of her own pictorial compositions, inspired by nature, its colorful transformations, atmospheric fluctuations, structural surfaces, and its endless harmony and variability.
The process of purposeful creative struggle and passion, was already shaping Mária's life and artistic decisions. She than became acquainted with teacher and painter Stanislav Kollárik. His systematic pedagogical creative guidance inspired and confirmed her further artistic direction and unique painterly vision.
In 2024, Mária became a member of the Academy of Abstract Art under the leadership of Adele Sypesteyn, who is a significant inspiration for Mária in the perfecting of her abstract painting.
Mária Rimarčíková´ s paintings
The spiritual realm of human
existence, with all its harmonious and dramatic paradoxes, is at the forefront
of Mária Rimarčíková´s artistic interest. Through
her paintings, she communicates directly with her surroundings while protecting
her delicate yet extraordinarily resilient inner world of imagination, dreams,
visions, moods, emotions, and subconscious thoughts, Maria´s artwork becomes a record,
from a dimension where peace and meditation reign, a silent symphony of colors,
shapes and their interrelations. Often drawing from lived and deeply felt
experiences, Mária´s work serves as a unique subjective lens through which she views
the resolution of any given situation.
The captivating atmosphere of colors and shapes is supported by a deep exploration of reality and of what goes beyond it, or meditation
Mária´ s creative process layers various structures, veiling them with both monochrome and vividly colored tiers. Her work then subsequently reveals suggestive features and details so they can "breathe", evoking an authenticity of feeling, mood, and state of mind. The blending of known truths with unknown realities within Mária´s own individuality, brings an element of dynamism and mysterious tension to her paintings. She immerses narrative connections (seen and experienced) or tangible elements into a mass of color, layering them with creamy, beige, muted salmon-pink and white hues. This suggests the interplay between two worlds — tangible reality and the world of feelings; enigmatic, merely intuited or supernatural.
Through her paintings, Mária guides the viewer to ponder something seemingly self-evident yet often deeply hidden, whether in the distant past, present, or perhaps near future. The sensed and simultaneously indefinable imprint of the archetypal origin of One's existence at times takes on the subtle, almost invisible form of a cross, a symbol of essence and a way out of the everyday chaos of human life. For the artist, the cross does not symbolise the bearing of suffering or sorrow, rather it is primarily a message of joy. Within the cross, Mária Discovers the immense power of mystery and a profound superhuman love for life, humanity and its essence.
The circle as the symbol of perfection and the cycle of life
Mária crafts captivating structural expression and meaning, through the creation of mutually concentrated circles – imprints of known and less recognizable things. She engages the viewer's imagination, helping to unlock a rich array of associative possibilities and interactive confrontations.
Mária´ s paintings belong within lyrical abstraction, but also bring in elements of situational conceptualism and conceptually applied collage, complemented by spontaneous calligraphic touches.
Writing, as a civilizational element, has a timeless effect with a hidden intimate meaning, but can also simply work as a visual element. Writing works unobtrusively, lending a composition a certain authority and importance. Sharp linear strokes, dark expressive areas, draw attention to specific contents. They evoke a lively, active intellectual contact with a specific literary work, philosopher, poet, historian, scientist, critic, writer, or musician who inspired or addressed the artist with their ideas and their realization. Mária herself prefers classical music, as something that sits in harmony with her own creative flow while painting.
The longing for harmony, beauty, and joy of life contrasts with dynamic paintings
From each of Mária´s paintings flows a "metaphysical longing" for life, synonymous with beauty, goodness, and truth, even where something unsettling occasionally emerges from the painting itself. The anticipation of eruptive explosiveness, however, the painter realizes in diametrically different, more dynamically conceived compositions. In these, she applies a profoundly dramatic, color and shape contrasting palette-knife style.
The Light as a spiritual stimulator supports the positive dimension of the painting
Despite the independence of Mária's paintings from nature, some directly stem from nature´s essence. Her work draws inspiration from the harmony of natural colors and shapes. Through this, she comes ever closer to spiritual and exclusively mystical content. In these moments, one cannot speak of a specific style or genre, but of an expression of a certain spiritual state, a spiritual category of "sacrum." Such intimate communication between the artist and the Creator can be found across Mária´s work, as an invisible essence of her inner joy and distinctive human and artistic perspective.
Through her paintings, Mária seeks and finds intersections between historical epochs, between reality and vision, between deep sorrow and joyful euphoria. Also, between doubt, and the will to maintain hope and faith in the triumph of Light in a profound spiritual dimension, and in the everyday rhythm of events.Collective exhibition: The Bricklane Gallery London
Solo exhibition:
KafeLampy, Bratislava, 2024, INTERSECTIONS
Nitra Synagogue, Slovakia