Maria Rosina Lamp's work is dedicated to people and their many facets. In her portraits and nudes, the artist tries to capture the essence of a person and how they present themselves in the world and in the light. Who are you? - is a question that the painter asks herself again and again. In doing so, she encounters a problem that only quantum physicists know: the more clearly you try to define a particle, the more blurred it becomes and in the end it threatens to disappear completely.
This can also be applied to painting: two opposing characteristics of a motif cannot be perceived at the same time. It is necessary to capture the person with their characteristics and personal expression, but also to perceive them as an object consisting of abutting, overlapping and interacting areas of color.
This dilemma forces painters to adopt a kind of meandering gaze that jumps back and forth between the different characteristics and perspectives in order to capture a harmonious whole. It is a work that is actually doomed to failure. And yet Maria Rosina Lamp succeeds in creating works that are characterized by a liveliness that few contemporary painters achieve - without lapsing into expressionist abstraction or photorealistic superficiality.