Yoly Maurer

1952 Born in Switzerland, resident of Zurich

ABOUT YOLY MAURER AND HER ART

YOLY has developed a new approach to the relationship between artist, artwork and observer - the "InProgress" approach. She uses the work of art as a storage media of interaction between artist and observers. YOLY produces an artwork on a topic, then in the context of an event she invites the public to start a discourse with her using a brush and paint and to paint over the artwork. Then in a further phase she makes a work of art based on her own impressions and feelings and in response to the "painted statements" of the public, by over painting and / or bringing out previous layers again: a permanent process of disposition - discussion - revision - exposition - disposition ...

Also in her scooped pictures, YOLYs paper work, the dialogue is program for her work. She scoops from the past and from the present artifacts like driftwood from the river of time and weaves a new message, synthesis and mirror at the same time. Those scooped pictures are YOLYs confrontation to the observer.
Like a starting point and target together, she chooses programmatic titles for individual cycles. This title guides or kidnaps the observer for a journey in...