Maria Kar

I was born in Roma, Italy and I live in this splendid city, chaotic and throbbing of art.
My activity is expressed in the production of personal and made-to-order artistic artifacts, created with various materials or on masonry walls, panels or new customized design products.
This activity is influenced both by the Italian 15th century frescoes (which I reproduce with earths and glazes on wall and wooden supports), and by the artists of the first half of the 20th century, such as the futurists, the Dadaists and the Abstractionists for the creation of some accessories of furniture, up to the photographic works of Abstract Realism that are inspired by the photographers of Abstract Expressionism.
Here I do not show the "manual" works, to be performed on commission. If you are interested, you can see some images on the Instagram () or Facebook () links together with a video that tells us, to me and my fellow craftsman.
On this platform I have decided to publish images that I create using photography. With it I look without filters, and I find Beauty, because everything that surrounds us has a deep or superficial aesthetic. Or I use a photo and create an imaginary world, a kind of Ready-Made of reflections with which my eye likes to...

I am an artist who has worked as a decorator of noble palaces in Rome since the age of 24, just finished high school, and later became a photographer for many years in the field of entertainment and sport.
In fact, following a personal health story, I chose to work directly in both these fields.
At the same time I got educated in graphics with computer programs.
Since 2006, due to family problems, I have had to choose a job as a clerk in order to stay at home as long as possible. In 2018 I return to photography, but it is a very different world from the one I left.
So I find myself in the midst of the pandemic to confront myself and what I was building. I didn't like it and I went back to my first love: Art as a way of life. It is my motto. Good vision

I was chosen among the 50 participants in the Wunderkammer 2022 in Verbania, at Villa Giulia di Pallanza. An international exhibition of emerging and already established contemporary art talents.
In fact, with my pseudonym EKart I create installations and sculptures with which I communicate my thoughts with my body towards the viewer.
I participated with the work "The Choice". loosely based on a famous book by a Jewish psychiatrist, Victor Frankl, who lived for more than two years in concentration camps.
You can view it at this link.
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I was chosen among the 50 participants in the Wunderkammer 2023 in Verbania, at Villa Giulia di Pallanza. An international exhibition of emerging and already established contemporary art talents.
I as EKART participated with the work "ANTROPOCENE", a videoart installation based on Ecology and environment.