Maria Yelletisch (b. 1987), an emerging artist from Barcelona, has already made a name for herself throughout her career. With an impressive academic background, Yelletisch is deeply rooted in the creative world on a personal and professional level. She currently lives in Madrid, where her studio is located.
The essence of Yelletisch’s work is to explore individual memory and illuminate its transformation into collective memory by examining the connection between the artwork and the viewer. Only then she starts working on the inner layers of her works, the parts that are protected and hidden from the viewer. In doing so, she experiments with different media to bring her artistic ideas to life.
Her works are minimalist yet detailed: her carefully constructed, repetitive brushstrokes create a coherent pattern that, when viewed from a distance, blends into a homogeneous and harmonious overall image. In this way, she draws the viewer into a tranquil, almost meditative world. In other works of hers, one discovers curved, horizontal, and vertical lines that repeat themselves, creating a dynamic yet balanced overall composition in this manner.
Through Maria Yelletisch’s paintings, the aesthetic order of our environment is reshaped and reflected. Her works are informed by personal experiences, memories, and longings, which she transforms into alternative ways of seeing. In doing so, she draws an emotional cartography of the places we build, pass through, or leave.
Her work reveals Yelletisch’s artistic contribution to depicting the interior as a landscape. Her play with contrasts and tensions between interior and exterior spaces allows her to create heterogeneous shelters in which memories and webs of relationships are artfully woven.
Maria Yelletisch is an artist who reinterprets her surroundings through her profound, introspective works, challenging our previous notions of space and memory. After all, her art reveals new ways of self-knowledge and experience to both the viewer and the artist herself.
I had the pleasure to talk to Maria about her work, read the inspiring interview here: Meditative Repetition: A Conversation With Maria Yelletisch
Further Reading
https://www.alzuetagallery.com/artists/maria-yelletisch-2/
