Emilia Jücker
Longtime member Emilia Jücker decided to change
professions about four years ago and become a professional
painter. Emilia has painted since childhood. She graduated
from a technological university with a degree in the
organic synthesis of substances—paint, color, dye, pigment,
and lacquer. She then went on to receive a PhD in ecology
and has looked closely at the complex colors and shapes
in natural systems which inspire her work today. She has
joined the Rolf Schröder-Born group in Eppendorf as well
as working as an independent artist. She has had several
exhibitions and, unfortunately, two more were cancelled
during this pandemic. This did not discourage her from
working even harder on her paintings.
So it is not surprising that these past weeks turned out to be
quite a productive period for Emilia. She has two projects
that she has been working on. The first is Klangbilder/
Brahms Waltzes, Op. 39, acrylic and other materials
Music with Paintings, wherein she paints live music that
she hears and then later uses those paintings to accompany
the musician. Her current inspiration is the concert pianist
Marina Sovova, who is a professor at the Alfred Schnittke
Akademie International, a music academy in Hamburg.
They had planned to have an exhibition/concert in April,
which was cancelled. Emilia has continued to work on the
nine paintings that she was going to exhibit during the
COVID-19 lockdown.
Her second project is contemporary modern art and
constellations done with emulsion and volcanic materials
and color in harmony: it is when nature and ecology create
a system so there are no brushstrokes in her work. Her
work was to be exhibited at a contemporary gallery which
is inside an amphitheater in ancient Serdica. Luckily she
could cancel everything because otherwise it would have
been very costly to ship the oversized canvases to Bulgaria.
As soon as we have a chance to go outdoors, keep your eyes
open for future exhibitions.
Rhapsody in Blue, acrylic and other materials, 8,80,x1.00m
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