Abstraktion von Emotionen – in meist runden fliessenden Formen – realisiert in unterschiedlichen Materialien und Dimensionen. Die Formgebung lässt eine gewisse Spannung in den Linien entstehen. Dadurch wirken ihre Skulpturen und Reliefs dynamisch, schwungvoll, fast lebendig.
Maritta Winter ist seit über zwanzig Jahren aktive Kunstschaffende. Seit 2007 stellt sie an internationalen Kunstmessen wie Art Prag, Europ’Art Genève, Salon des Beaux Arts Paris und Art Karlsruhe aus. Die Künstlerin arbeitet sowohl in Grossformaten für den öffentlichen Raum, als auch in verschiedenen Massstäben für den/die Kunstliebhaber/in.
„In der Natur, der Architektur und in der Musik finde ich Inspirationsquellen für Kraft, Eleganz und Harmonie, die ich in meine Werke interpretiere. Die Dynamik des Tanzes, für mich ein vitales Erlebnis in Bezug auf die Wahrnehmung des Raums und des Ausdrucks von Empfindungen, setzt sich in der Kreation fort.“
Growth and movement determine the form itself
On Maritta Winter’s sculptures
It is the combination of movement and architectonic forms in Maritta Winter’s sculptures that has led many of them to be displayed in public squares and buildings. The soft curves of the work Skydream (2011) contrast with the austere, functional architecture of the lobby of the Prime Tower in Zurich, while Rendez-vous (2006) swoops out into the landscape like a bird in front of the Grand Ballon hotel in France’s Vosges mountains and Zen (2009) creates a meditative oasis in the stairwell of the Finnova AG building in Lenzburg, Switzerland. All sculptures are distinctly voluminous. They are expressive entities which create a space of their own while existing in harmony with the location and architectural surroundings.
Maritta Winter draws her inspiration from her intuitive feel for growth, architectonics and movement. A recurring theme in her body of work is the union of two volumes and the unfolding of movement that seems to swing into the space. “The shapes find me,” is how she describes her intuition. This has to do with feeling - instinctually perceiving volumes, edges and transitions between shapes. It is also a visual process that involves determining the point at which the outline of the shape achieves perfection.
For Maritta Winter, dynamics are just as inspiring as nature. “If I hadn’t become a sculptor, I would have been a dancer.” She has taken classes and still dances today, but the significance of movement and music in her sculptures is unmistakeable even for someone who is unaware of this. One of her works swings freely into the space like a dancer turning on the spot, arms raised, with perfect balance. Strictly speaking, this significance of movement comes just as much from nature as the shape of a plant seed or a human body. Dance as a fundamental form of human expression carries Maritta Winter’s works like a secret power fuelling her creative process.
Maria Becker
Art historian and author, Basle, Switzerland |