'Emotional' exhibition opens at The Watergate

A VISUAL journey through art which shows how emotions influence perception – always changing, unpredictable, always in motion – opens at the Upstairs Gallery of the Watergate Theatre on this Friday (February19).

Fundamentally, artist Katja Wittmer's latest work, shown under the title E(MOTION), deals with the motion of emotion.

She emphasises the hidden, the subtle, the profound, eliminating the importance of the depicted scene, by using intense colours, scattering textures and dripping paint. She creates conscious abstractions that encourage a subtle, colour-geared stimulation of personal associations and emotions.

Her work aims at altering the awareness of the individual’s emotional consciousness through conceptual dialogue with the physical painting.

Katja’s art deals with looking behind the scenes and exploring the emotional abyss. She shows the complex facets of humankind - highs and lows, light and shadow, beauty and distortion, love and hate.

Born in 1972 in Germany, Katja Wittmer grew up in Munich, Brazil and the USA. She graduated from Auburn University (USA) with a cum laude degree in Fine Arts in 1997.

She has travelled the world extensively since then, coming to Ireland in 2007. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including New York, Manila, Hong Kong, Vienna, Munich and Mumbai.

In 2008, Katja Wittmer was an artist-in-residence at the Custom House Studios in Westport, and she is currently based in the Tulla Stables Studios in Co Clare.

For more information on Katja, go to: www.Artkatja.com

The exhibition continues until March 19, and the opening hours are:

Monday – Friday, 10am -7pm, Saturday 2pm -7pm.