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Professor Maria Lalic Exhibition in Munich

Friday, 28 October, 2016

Professor of Painting, Maria Lalic is currently exhibiting work in After Image, a two person exhibition at Galerie Renate Bender in Munich.

Maria is exhibiting eight new paintings that comprise the start of her new monochrome series of ‘History Paintings’, alongside three from her original polychrome series.

Maria’s original series of the ‘History Paintings’ (started in 1995), took their premise from a colour chart produced by the paint manufacturers Winsor and Newton in which colour is grouped according to six era’s of invention – Cave, Egyptian, Greek, Italian, C18/19th and C20th. The 52 paintings build layer upon layer of oil glazes of pure colour in rotation, all the colours from each era completing an apparent monochrome, whilst in fact being polychromes.

Maria started work on the second group of ‘History Paintings’ three years ago. The new paintings are ‘Monochromes’. All eight colour groups within the original Winsor and Newton paint chart – red, blue, yellow, green, purple, black, white and brown – are painted in layer upon layer of oil glazes, built chronologically.

She thinks of the intensity of these paintings as absolutes, 'making the bluest Blue, the reddest Red and so on.’

Maria is exhibiting alongside Bill Thompson; whose works also explore colour, in different but complementary ways.

The exhibition runs until 13 May.