Goddess Serotonin Print

„Beemaster” is a series of oil and digital paintings as well as utility forms such as tables and pillows. The starting point for Mainka’s work are internal paintings, full of strong myth and archetype character. Mainka’s painting technique remind photos, point the negative at the blurred internal image. The images emerge from the darkness, are sharpened, until they are demarcated by a clear contour from the bottomless black absorption. Mysterious cases and golden forms are wrapped in Chiaroscuro light, meticulously refined. Mainka is fully devoted to the formal image, the search results are the virtuosity of light and the specific “spilling” of painted objects. Natural forms (bee, flower, beehive) are developed by Mainka in his own fashion, as if from the secretariat of evolution and once accelerated and once revoked the mysterious biology clock. It can be called biological abstraction, but the artist talks about the desire to “disappear” in the process of creating an image, and about the fact that they reach impersonality “Become a force that builds cabbage” – explains Mainka. References to baroque painting are mixed with the gothic ornamentation of nature, scientific interests of observed nature and mathematics with furniture designs of Hieronim Bosch (“Table of Wisdom”), to establish a connection of the 21st-century Mainki table in the spirit of „The Beemaster” series. The nearby cycle is being developed, and soon works on more staged products will be created.