STATEMENT

"... When she enters the painting with color, the linkages of the different segments between themselves get even ampler than in her drawings-formats are more impetuous and demand from the composition a greater intensity of the respective autonomies of colors and forms. No color appears in isolation, each is always defined taking their starting point from their surrounding. Thus there arise chromatic scales that become triads which, in turn, constitute the chromatic modulations of the paintings. Some are based on a central triad, while in others are detected rhythmic oscillations, rich in contrasts, that unite to form a many-sided chorus. In such fields of tension modulations and hues of extraordinary softness expand establishing some sort of comforting harmony among the various fields of contrast. However, since no color appears without a form, Martha Zuik combines the intrinsic excitability of color with the limitation, the transparency or the voluminous ness to which it is subjected, or rather, to which this color remains constituently linked. The artist applies the most multiple variants to this phenomenon of color, especially in those cases where she places a graphic trace or a structure on the color. With them she obtains an additional argumentation that enriches the colorful links of the chromatic fields by adding a new plane. Hence the richness and universality of her paintings..."

EXHIBITIONS

2008 Voelkerkunde Museum, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Sala Carlos Thays, Jardin Botanico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Galeria Empatia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Heineman Myers, Contemporary Art, Washington DC, USA
2006 Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
2004 Museo Metropolitano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 Johann Wolfgang Goethe Museum, Frankfurt, Germany