Monochromen_Gold_L1 Painting

In the first 6 months of this year, Alisa Lim A Po is working on a new series: Monochromes. With this series she takes her work a step further to get closer to its intrinsic value. She is looking for more depth, for a pure presentation of an emotional experience, for internalization. This requires a rigorous approach. She lets go of her valued color palette and focuses on the new basic ingredient: black. In addition, the layering increases. Three-dimensional aspects are increasingly coming to the fore. And a bulk of new materials and techniques are researched and applied. The new series Monochromes is born. The monochrome works consist of black and the required supporting color. This pendant is usually white, but also other colors like rose, gold and blue pass the stage. It is about the contrast, the interplay between light and dark, and the color values that lies in between. In these gradations, that is where the added value lies. Layering is of an even greater importance in this series. In color, in shape and in construction. It is a game of construction and breakdown, which is always in succession, until finally a symbiotic amalgamation has arisen. They are immense collages made up of multiple layers. Loose shapes, fixed shapes, large, small, two- and three-dimensional. Using the scissors, the artist elaborates the works in a clever way. Contrast and texture reinforce each other and create depth to eventually become one. The works are abstract. Absolution is both the starting point and the final destination. The structure provides a spatial layering, in which the relationship between color, line and shape is decisive and of great significance. Lim A Po works with acrylic on various materials, such as linen, paper, aluminum and brass.