Carmen Rieger
Drawing was present within my life ever since my childhood. I spent a lot of time in nature, in my grandparents’ village. I was, most of all, drawn to water, in all its forms of existence and manifestation. I enjoyed drawing the outline of small pools of water after it rained. Fascinated, with my finger, I would follow the raindrops trickle down my window and I would then draw scenes and fantastic characters inspired by the rain’s dance.
Thus began an adventure that influenced my entire existence.
Everything flows. Fluidity belongs to the human being by our biological composition, and by the composition of our society in which we are immersed. All we have to do is let ourselves be carried away by the flow of eternal becoming.
My drawings and paintings are inspired by the liquid aggregate state of water, giving me the greatest freedom to create without wholly destroying its form and initial character.
The shapes and features of all living bodies are continuously changing and I had the idea to only draw the liquid part of the bodies.
An elephant is transformed into new elephant through a complex ensemble of colours and organic shapes, without losing the idea of the elephant. A person’s character and inner life can be recognised in a portrait; a bird remains a bird without losing the character and idea of flight.
Fluidism is a concept through which I express my artistic creed in works of art, inspired by the existence of a complex substance of outstanding properties and qualities – WATER.
WATER is a unique and indestructible substance.
WATER is the basis of life, growth and change.
WATER has the ability to regenerate continually.
WATER is comforting and soothing.
WATER shows understanding and sensitivity.
WATER is an accomplished artist.
WATER is the most important element on the planet, can be found in 70% of our earth and in the same proportion in the bodies of humans, animals and plants – sometimes even in a larger quantity.
I have chosen to use the seven colours of the rainbow and the shades obtained by combining them in all of my artworks.
From the simple drawings of my childhood to my complex works in the now, the difference is enormous. I know that this new style has always been a part of me, but I have not been aware of it until very late.
It has grown with me and we have matured together. I have always been fascinated by the organic form that fluids take in their movement on different surfaces. I used these organic forms, for the first time in a complex and advanced composition, in the summer of 2018. From that moment on, I understood the worth and meaning of so many years of observation and experimentation with fluids. From that moment on, I started drawing in a new, original style and I created a concept that I called “Fluidism”.
Daily contact with fluids, for years on end, has influenced my artistic development and has brought me to that moment of becoming aware of something I have always carried with me – Fluidism.
The “awakening” happened, I managed to make my “inner voice” heard through original artworks bearing a brand new style based upon an original concept. Now I truly consider myself an artist. My artworks are the essence of what I am, what I feel and what I live.
