Ausstellung „Róza El-Hassan“ in der KnollGalerie Wien 2024
KnollGalerie Wien, am 21. Februar 2024, kurz vor 17 Uhr
Begegnung von Róza El-Hassan
„Es geht um Zeit“, sagt Róza.
Rechts „Ohne Titel“ (2023) eines der ersten Werke im Eingangsbereich der KnollGalerie Wien.
„Zeit“, tönt es in mir, „Zeit“, und ich höre ein innerliches Ticken: „Tick, tack, tick, tack … „. Ich lausche diesen Impulsen, fühle eine Bewegung, einen Raum, in dem sich dieses Ticken ereignet, einen Raum in mir.
Ich sehe ein Pendel.
Ich spüre eine Pendelbewegung, ein imaginäres Hin und Her der Kugel, spüre einen Rhythmus, einen Wechsel der Bewegungsrichtung und eine Pause, ein Innehalten vor dem Zurückschwingen, spüre meinen Atmen im Rhythmus der Bewegung, spüre ein Einschwingen, Mitschwingen, spüre Einatmen, Pause, Ausatmen im Kommen und Gehen, zunehmend im Einklang, zunehmend beruhigend, endlos, zeitlos …
Ich sehe Linien, Kreise, Tropfen, ein Gefäß … Spiegelungen …
Ich sehe verschiedene Ebenen, Räume, Dimensionen …
Ich spüre Grenzen, Statik und Enge im Linearen und Bewegung, Freiheit und Austausch im Organischen, Zyklischen …
Ich fühle von Oben nach Unten zunehmende innere Bewegungsfreiheit …
Wohltuend … freier Atem …
Aha taucht auf, …
Einsicht in einen visualisierte Entwicklungs- und Erkenntnisprozess …
Mir wird die tiefgründige und intuitive Symbolsprache bewußt, die eine persönliche Lebenserfahrung transzendiert und durch Explizites Implizites zum Ausdruck bringt.
Róza schöpft aus dem Unbewußten im ursprünglich schöpferischen Modus, aus der Quelle ins Sein. „Touched“ lautet daher der Titel des Integral Art Lab mit Arbeiten von El-Hassan zu dem ich herzlich einlade.
Ein Integral Art Lab mit offenem Fokus in der Ausstellung „Robert Motherwell | Pure Painting“ im Kunstforum Wien 2024.
Im Erkunden treten drei Bilder besonders hervor – Bild 1, Bild 2, Bild 3 – die aus der Reflexion meiner ästhetischen Erfahrung folgende Quintessenz für mich bergen:
- Ich folge gerne dem Unbekannten, in einer insgeheimen und freudigen Erwartung, eine neue Einsicht ins Bewusstsein zu heben.
- Ich liebe beim Erkunden die Freiheit, die Leichtigkeit, das Spiel und die Aha-Momente der Inspiration und/oder Erkenntnis.
- Mein Wesen sucht in allen Bildern das Anthropomorphe, das größere Ganze, das Kreative, das Verbindende im gemeinsamen Sein.
Wien, am 3. Januar 2024
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) – Bild Nr. 3
Ich sehe Manifestes und Subtiles, ein Paar, das sich berührt. Es geht oder steht.
Ich spüre eine Anziehungskraft, das Wiedererkennen, den Sog zur Vereinigung, Einswerden.
Ich fühle die Essenz dieser Intensität in mir, ….
Mir wird bewußt, dass mich diese Anziehung berührt, die Sehnsucht nach Einheit hinter der vielfältigen Erscheinung.
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) – Bild Nr. 2
Ich sehe Schichten und Strukturen, Offenes und Geschlossenes, Dichtes und Durchsichtiges, Ränder, Linien und Kanten, Gerades und Ungerades, und einen sonderbar deutlichen Balken?
Ich fühle Enge, Schmerz, Widerstand, Protest und dann Fragen …
Ich spüre mein Suchen nach Aufbruch, Durchbruch und finde Risse … Atem, Licht … Erleichterung, Bewegung … Dankbarkeit …
Ich werde mir bewußt, wie sehr ich das Organische liebe, das Ausgewogene, das Fließende, die Harmonie und erinnere mich an den Himmel, die Freiheit, die Sonne …
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) – Bild Nr. 1
Ich sehe Farben und Formen, Flächen und Perspektiven, Lichtes und Dunkles, Subtiles und Manifestes, Geschlossenes und Transparentes, Erhebungen und Vertiefungen, Durchgängiges und eine Barriere, ein Schloss. Ich sehe Gerades und Bewegtes, Getrenntes und Verbundenes, Statisches und Bewegtes, ein Spiel und – ein Balken.
Ich fühle eine Freude, eine Neugier, eine Offenheit, einen Forschergeist, einen Abenteurerwillen, eine Lust tiefer zu schauen und weiter zu gehen und weiter zu fragen im Durchgehen, Mitgehen, Mitbewegen. Ich fühle Dankbarkeit, Inspiriertheit, Leichtigkeit, Freiheit für Sein im Nichtwissen.
Ich spüre mein bewegtes Wandern, Suchen und Erkunden, folge den begeisterten Pfaden der Augen – und stehe dann vor dem Balken. Ein Hindernis? Innehalten.
Ich werde mir bewußt, dass ich hier den Qualitäten begegne, die mir so wichtig sind, der Freiheit im Erkunden, der Offenheit in der Bewegung, der Hingabe an das Nichtwissen.
Der Balken ist kein Hindernis, vielmehr eine Einladung zur Reflexion.
Meine Quintessenz: Es geht um das Einlassen, die Hingabe, denn dadurch eröffnet sich der Raum dahinter, darunter, jenseits des Spiels.
Participants of Integral Art Labs on divers paintings:
„I see a doorway, my doorway …
I feel intense attraction, magnetism in my heartspace…
I sense overall joy and deep relaxation as if I found it! Gratitude overwhelms me!
I become aware of that this doorway was/is always there ….
The information that arise is that I need to allow myself to see it, to listen to it, to trust it, to be courageous in following my calling, in radiating this joy through devotion to it in me.“
Painting: Martina Höss, Cosmic Supercharge
ESRAD Conference: Integral Art Lab: Challenges, Motivation, Values with Art by Martina Höss, May 2023
Spontanes Journaling zu Claude Monet, Essai de figure en plein-air – Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche, 1880, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Ich spüre den Wind im Rücken und halte meinen Körper balancierend gegen die Brise …
Ich höre ein Strömen und Blasen, ein Rauschen an meinen Ohren …
Ich rieche, doch finde keinen Hinweis … die Luft ist warm und bewegt, die Stimmung heiter …
Bilder steigen auf und körperliche Schwere wird spürbar …
Wellen in der Ferne tosen und mein Körper öffnet sich, wird weit und weich … Ich würde mich gerne einbetten und die Augen schließen, ganz im Lauschen verweilen und mich hingeben den Wogen des Lebens und der heraufdämmernden Lust …
Mein schützendes Schlafgemach ruft und … ich lege ab den Hut …
Paris, am 27. Januar 2022
Spontanes Journaling on Claude Monet, Pommier en fleurs au bord de l’eau, 1880 dans l’exposition „Signac“ au Musée d’Orsay, Paris – As if I were this tree
I feel magically drawn to the vivid flicker that streams from the painting.
I smell beguiling clouds of fragrance that impregnate the air.
I feel drawn into a song of wooing flower stalks?
Humming, buzzing and busy wing beats buzz around my head. This is a wedding, a moving, cheerful back and forth.
My perception is full of impressions, of light, colours, flickering, scents, sounds, movements, warmth.
I sense a tree through the sea of blossoms and become aware of this life force that interconnects earth and sky.
The juices that take nourishment from the branching roots in the earth and push towards the blossoms, causing this intoxicating splendour to blossom into space.
My impulse is to be aware of this intoxication and at the same time to surrender to this unreserved growth and wonderful unfolding, as if I were this tree bearing these blossoms.
Paris, January 27, 2022
Claude Monet, Pommier en fleurs au bord de l’eau, 1880, actuellement dans l’exposition „Signac“ au Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Spontaneous journaling on one of the artworks by Georg Baselitz in the exhibition „Baselitz – La retrospective“ in the Centre Pompidou, Paris:
Je vois une lutte pour un nouvel ordre de l’homme et du monde dans l’image.
Je ressens de l’apesanteur, du soulagement et de la détente.
Je me sens libre comme l’air, la signification est dépouillée de sa force.
Je remarque une petite brèche de nouvelles possibilités, je sens la liberté et je pressens beaucoup plus d’espace, de dimensions, de volume ….
Mon impulsion est de garder cet espace de liberté en vue, de l’élargir, de m’y glisser ou d’ouvrir la porte en grand pour permettre la fraîcheur et le renouvellement.
I see a struggle for a new order of man and the world in the picture.
I sense weightlessness, relief and relaxation.
I feel fool’s freedom, meaning is stripped of its power.
I notice a small gap of new possibilities, smell freedom and suspect much more space, dimensions, breadth …
My impulse is to keep this gap of freedom in focus, to widen it, to slip through it or to open the gate wide to allow freshness and renewal.
Paris, January 26, 2022
Georg Baselitz: Adler im Fenster, 1982, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in the Exhibition „Baseltz – La rétrospective“ au Centre Pompidou, Paris
Journaling on the sculpture „La Danaide“ from Auguste Rodin explored in the Integral Art Lab: La Présence de l’Ame
Je vois un corps qui s’abandonne totalement à ce sentiment d’être, tout en dégageant une grâce et une beauté. Je perçois le corps et le sentiment comme une unité dans leur apparence.
Je me sens magiquement attiré par la souplesse du corps et la mobilité de l’expression des sentiments.
Je ressens un abandon total à un état d’être corporel qui me permet de fusionner, de ne devenir qu’UN avec tout ce qui EST.
Je me rends compte que ce sont ces moments qui élargissent sensiblement mon être dans ce monde, qui rendent présente mon unité perceptive avec le plus grand tout.
Mon impulsion est de m’exercer à cette conscience éveillée de l’autre côté, de ce qui EST en même temps.
I see a body that completely surrenders to this feeling of being, radiating grace and beauty. I perceive body and feeling in their appearance as a unity.
I feel magically attracted by the supple physicality and the mobile expression of feeling.
I sense the complete surrender to a physical state of being that lets me become ONE with what IS.
I become aware that it is these moments that tangibly expand my being in this world, my true oneness with the greater whole present.
My impulse is to practise this awake awareness of the other side, of what IS at the same time.
Paris, January 25, 2022
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917): La Danaide, 1889, Musée Rodin, Paris.
Journaling on the painting „Mars, Vénus et l’amour“ from Lambert Sustris explored in the Integral Art Lab: The Beauty in Being
I am attracted by the fragrance that flows from this painting, a composition of heavy dark velvet curtains, precious light satin, graceful youthful femininity and a tense erotic expectation …
I notice the love game of the doves, the arrow of Cupid – with a questioning look at Venus – directed at the Tauberich, the harnessed one in coming and Venus ready in devotion …
I perceive how my connection with this interplay of hints sensitizes my body and integrates it into the play …
I become aware of the archaic process of creation, which underlies all creative work and reveals to us in devoted togetherness the most wonderful feeling of happiness of oneness…
Sustris, Lambert dit aussi Lambert Von Amsterdam, (Amsterdam, 1515 à 1520 – Venise, après 1568): Mars, Vénus et l’amour, XVIe siècle (1500 – 1600 et 1548 – 1552), Louvre, Paris
Journaling on the painting „Buste d’homme“ from Pablo Picasso in the exhibition „Modigliani – Picasso. Revolution des Primitivismus“ in the Albertina Museum, Vienna:
I feel attracted to something that seems to be in suspension.
I sense an inwardness of one part of the face with the eye closed and the half of the face relaxed, I sense stillness and expansiveness that this state opens.
I feel the emergence of the other part of the face from the silence, an entering into relationship, perhaps awakening from the inner space in the world and perceive an inner straightening and alignment to the outside.
I notice that only the outwardly completed half of the face has an ear.
I wonder what makes the difference and it wants to seem to me as if it is the directionality made possible by the energy, the will.
It feels also as if this play of inside and outside holds a resource, mine and all of ours. Do you hear it?
I become aware that in this interplay of relaxation and tension, of inside and outside, of sending and receiving, relationship has its origin.
January 7, 2022
Pablo PICASSO, 1881, Málaga (Espagne) – 1973, Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes, France): Buste d’homme (étude pour „Les Demoiselles d’Avignon“), printemps 1907, Paris
© Succession Picasso
Crédit photographique : Adrien Didierjean/Agence photographique de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais des Champs Elysées
Journaling on the painting „In Gratitude To The Climate“ from the Integral Art Lab: GRACE with Art by Martina Höss
I see a multicolor spiral, enlightend from a source of light within …
I feel the structure, a strength, a stability …
I sense a power penetrating the structure and a sort of clearing of the outer layers …
I become aware of the intensity of this source in the center of the spiral …
My impulse is to take more consciously note of this power, of this energy.
I ask myself what the difference would be if the relation of the different layers to this source would be more conscious.
I ask myself what would happen if I with my different layers would more relate to this source, if I would presence this source through these layers, if the source shines through and becomes apparent in every cell, like grace in the quote of Sri Aurobindo on Divine Grace.
A participant on the aesthetic resonance exploration of Martina Höss‘ painting: „The Imperial I am“ as part of the Integral Art Lab: DIGNITY with artworks by Martina Höss:
I see rings of different colours, thicknesses, materialities, structures arranged around a centre whose core appears open and free.
I sense a vastness and infinity emanating from a beyond, a beyond of these rings.
I feel myself drawn to this open core.
I become aware that this dimension behind is always there and that I am completely caught up in the colourful diversity and its contemplation and receiving of new information.
As an impulse I take with me to preserve this felt vastness in my presence and perhaps even to see at myself from this other dimension, to take up the connection from there and to act awake, clear and consciously from here.
I want to surrender to this power and dimension and receive the information and inspiration for my being-in-the-world. (Anonymous)
Anke W.
A woman in her power. Grounded she stands there. Creativity flows through her and out of her. On the other hand it flies to her to receive her, to transform her and to carry her out into the world again. A cycle of creative energy.
Oda, G.
Ich fühle Fülle Reichtum und Vielfalt.
Ich spüre meine Verbundenheit mit Himmel und Erde!
Mir wird die Liebe bewusst, durch die wir in der Welt sein können.
Mein Impuls ist, mit diesem Gefühl bewußt verbunden zu bleiben und aus dieser Verbundenheit meine Lebenskraft zu empfangen und zu schenken.
Ich sehe GEBEN und EMPFANGEN in voller Blüte!
Danke an Gaia Orion für dieses wundervolle Bild.
Painting: Gaia Orion: She flourishes
Lisa S.
I see an enlightened woman. Her gaze is directed upwards to the right, her mouth is open, her red hair is falling wildly. She is shown against a very dark background. I perceive a strong contrast between the colours of the subject and the background and a great dynamic. I feel a shiver, a pause, an impulse to exhale. I feel an expectant looking/listening/being touched. I feel a visionary awakening expressed in the picture, a looking that is removed from the everyday.
The ambiguity speaks to me:
movement – silence
light – darkness
inside – outside
opening – being averted
devotion – blushing
taking the unexpected
I think „vision requires a willingness/fruitful soil/presence to be seen“.
Maria G.
„I see a divided crowd, one of them striving for the earthly and its surroundings, the other seeing them, but also open to more … Above both of them is a Mary appearing in the light, whose gaze makes a U-turn and looks even further and higher…
I feel heaviness, darkness, toil, entanglement and lightness, brightness, freedom, relaxation …
I feel an inner opening between the two worlds, between above and below and with the union a state in a higher level … I feel that through this a channel opens up for a further view, which allows me to look further and to move into it immediately …
I become aware that this access is always there, that I can simply align my inner attitude to it, so that I am connected with this dimension …
From this realization, I perceive the impulse that answers to my questions come to me from this dimension, possibly as visions, as inner images that do not refer to the future, but rather occur as an opening into these dimensions in the here and now.“
Anna G.
I see nature and culture, a path with half pillars and half capitals on which green spheres rest, glowing from within. I see grass and mountains and behind them a sunset, a red-hot sun behind the mountains casting shadows, above it a crescent moon …
Sun and moon are not in the centre of the painting … Earth and sky, dark cloud formations …
I am attracted by a vibrating heart that shines in the centre of the picture.
I feel: this is it! NOT the sun, NOT the moon, NOT the biggest sphere, but this shining and pulsating heart that lies on the way, that is part of the way, a light that shines between other lights, and now shines for me …
I feel this is it, whatever it is …
I sense that I have to follow this light, it’s my own inner light …
I have to go into this light, through this light, that is my destiny …
For my life, this means that I must follow this sign or symbol, in humility, in love, in gratitude.
Gloria P.
Painting and title „Portal into the unmanifested Reality“ captivated me in the first moment of contact. They were in line with my most central theme in my life at the moment: to use and develop my therapeutic healing potential in a professional setting. In concrete terms, I am in preparations to open a consulting practice as a first step.
I saw the blue color field, structured in itself only by slight differences in light and dark and color. And I saw as a „figure“ a round, a core, a shell, more clearly lifted off and yet, with a soft open gaze, dissolving, melting, almost disappearing into homogeneous blue.
„Koan“ shot me in the head in the face of the change and the inconceivability of what I saw depending on the optical quality of perception, which varied according to my thoughts and intentions. I tried to see with my whole body, breathed more deeply, let myself in on the fact that I didn’t want to know concretely how my work with people would be and develop, meditated my wish as an inquiring request…
The intensity and energy of my experience increased in this prayer, and it became a deep question about myself, the „Who am I?
In my chest around my heart pain appeared, deep mental and physical pain, for a moment a condition like dying, behind it then love, glowing, burning, transforming…
I continued to ask, suddenly and surprisingly my eyes became awake and active, saw crystallized, manifest realities of the future in the color structures of the core, fireworks-like sparkling blue tones, the eyes reached for them, handled them, … my future actions and actions were expressed in them for me …
A feeling of trust and security came up: my potential will be put to use, and I will develop my focal points accordingly in my work …
Then, even further, a recognition: It is the way. When I make myself available, I will be manifested in every moment as a new one in constant transformation and unfolding.
Anthea P.
Comments on my personal experience, first responding to the proposed questions in relation to the painting I chose/was attracted to: “From the beginning and Ende” a painty by Martina Höss.
- I see a beautiful image of light which shines with divine power and intensity. It comes out of the darkness and seems to embrace and integrate it.
- I feel an expansion in my heart towards it, something joyful. I feel strength emanating from the light. Maybe the contrast to the darkness enhances the power of the light which holds me in its presence not letting me stray away.
- I sense the magnetism of deep silence and space drawing me close to it, a place where I am safe to observe and wonder at the paradox of light and dark, of clarity and unknown, of colours and their absence, warmth and cold, openness and reclusion, joy and sadness, fragility and strength, life and death…
- I become aware of the mystery ofmy own spark of light as a tiny fraction of the divine source, of searching for its origin, being somehow connected, being filled with it, of merging into it, not two…
- What impulse of active action is showing up? A desire to share it, tell everyone about it, and at the same time a stillness which infuses me with the beauty, that speaks for itself without words, and reflects a kaleidoscope of perspectives of myself, who I am, where I am, who I am becoming…
This was my first participation in the Integral Art Lab which Ute kindly invited me to. It was altogether an extraordinary experience which blew my mind. First of all I enjoyed the process of following instructions to choose one of the paintings and make notes of my impressions in reply to the specific questions. Maybe I didn’t spend enough time to chose one as I wanted to allow more time for feeling into the questions.
When we started sharing, I was amazed as I listened to the description given to another painting – True Extension – and it revealed itself to me in a way I had not noticed at first sight, I could suddenly see and feel each detail and beyond, I almost fell into the trap of becoming judgmental of myself for not having noticed it before.
Then someone else described their experience of yet another painting – Portal into the Unmanifested Reality – as I focused on it, I could hear the words drifting in the background, but the painting seemed to come alive and be interacting with me directly. I saw a mandala appearing and disappearing into the infinite blue, then returning. I couldn’t believe my eyes, or was it a trick of my mind? It was quite an overwhelming experience which had never happened before in this way, and it made me want to take time to focus on each painting as I realised the life energy they contain which connects to each one of us according to our own individual hearts, perspectives and lenses.
I have always been a lover of art in all its forms, I am a musician myself. And I am very grateful for this profound experience which, for me, opened up a new way to perceive and interact with paintings. Thank you Ute, for the wonderful opportunity.
At yesterday’s IAL (Oct 3, 2020) on the topic of VISIONS in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (KHM) I heard:
„For me, vision hangs somehow ‚above‘, so my gaze is somehow directed upwards, as if there is something to see up there… I do not know. I just observe it. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a vision or seen anything that showed itself like that. I’ve only heard or read about vision or seen vision in pictures. I find it exciting that I can adjust to a vision in order to experience it for myself and my life. However, I have no idea how this should work. Of course, I have always thought about my personal future, my own life planning, but that was very much influenced by social conventions, a standard of living, recognition, etc. and less by deeper or further insights, which take a larger radius into account and also evoke needs and values in me, for example with regard to a common life, the relationship, the togetherness, the culture, the environment, etc. If I wanted to get involved, I notice that I need more time for it, more peace and serenity. Then a space opens up in me, in which I can feel and look at my perceptions. I find this very interesting. Maybe this attitude goes in this direction and a feeling of stillness, transparency and brightness emerges in me, which has a lot of air, in which there is a lot of room or let’s say space, with its own vibration and rhythm… When I surrender to this state, the words fall back… and I experience this – is it a vision? – in the here and now. It is simply this being seen in the here and now.“
J. actually never goes to the Kunsthistorisches Museum and certainly never looks at such pictures. In this IAL J. has chosen himself: Luca Giordano: Archangel Michael overthrows the renegade angels, around 1660/65 and writes at the end of this art experience: „The pausing, feeling the inner space, perceiving and consciously moving this perception, by deepening (questions, focus, …) has made this significant experience possible. Thanks!“
Thank you J. for sharing your insights with us!
Jenny B. on the painting „Ascension“ from Gaia Orion:
„I see a woman whose container is breaking open with powerful unstoppable energy.
I sense her complete and blissful surrender to the process.
I feel that we as a species live in a shell and we fear its fracturing but it will be an ignition of utter bliss.
The power and ferocity appeals to me.
I become aware that it is spinning.
The life impulse is to break everything open!“
Thank you, Jenny, for sharing your insights with us!