Maria Thurn Und Taxis

Her paintings suggest aspects that are both comic and provocative, creative contents that evoke the pictorial aesthetic of the grotesque and the light-heartedly droll. Through powerful juxtapositions of figuration and abstraction, humor and menace, formal clarity and ambiguity, Thurn und Taxis’ paintings convey a powerful tension between familiarity and uncanniness that absorb the viewer into their arrested dynamism. In the artist’s own words Maria’s work deals with exploring “a tensions that is inherent in the human condition. These relate to questions of life and death, pain and happiness.