Italy#6 Drawing

Catrin Morschek M.A., about the series "Foldings of bronze", 2020: "The work of the artist Britta Eriskat is multi-layered and complex and cannot be categorized. It is often visual impressions, such as the view from her window, chance encounters or imagined scenes, which the artist translates into her own visual language through drawing or design. This results in works that encode the visually perceived objects or scenes, abstracting possible recognizable figurations. The pictorial invention often develops as the result of a prolonged thought process that analyzes the most diverse facets of the subject and then finds implementation in serial form. The format of the series gives the artist the freedom to illuminate a theme from many sides, to dissect and to integrate the individual parts, each in a new incoherent context. The choice of painting material also plays a not insignificant role, since it is used consistently within a series. Although Eriskat experiments and works with a wide range of materials, such as colored pencils and black or colored ink mostly on paper, but also with paper, clay and bronze in the sculptural field, drawing is always recognizable as the basis of her artistic work. All works oscillate equally between figuration and abstraction. In this way, a very unusual oeuvre of autonomous pictorial works, sculptural objects and installations has emerged."