Walls

Walls where we look, walls that we bump into, which hide the unknown, walls that we do not know who built, when and why. Walls that just exist where we come and go nearby. Walls that perfectly expand the frozen energy, that fill in the space around us. Forms and textures on the walls, strictly and pragmatically taken compositions that are delicate and very sensitive.

Aniko Robitz is a young autodidact photographer whose main interest tends toward the margin of figurative and abstract. Her photos were taken in various places of the world although the subject always remains the same – pure forms and the essence of materials drawn by the light and the shadow. The object itself is slightly recognizeable – disappears in its details but leaves a certain atmosphere that could be a painterly effect as well. However, her thinking of black and white bonds her to the photographical tradition where expression comes from the allocation of light.

When she started to create pictures her main subject was the concrete in which she discovered various patterns. Among the further works we can separate three series in which we find three different textures – walls in close distance with dominating detailes, urban structures with delicate lines and ornamental character, surfaces with hidden, more plastic essence.

She has a fresh and very actual style. As she grabs the wounded surface of bleeding houses or the perfect smooth on modern palaces – she suggests the human fate from a certain social constructivist approach. Based on  the arhitecture of her pictures she could name Moholy-Nagy, Rodchenko and Lucien Herve as her masters. And her minimalistic but strongly atmospheric way of thinking could be linked to the heritage of the art of Rudolph Herve.

The textures and forms as pictured by Aniko Robitz also mirror the structure of the human soul. They show the layers that we can and want to open as well as the layers we can not and do not want either.