SKYLINES

With her series, “Skylines”, MTH makes a specific artistic statement. This cycle strongly reflects the personal experiences of the artist, who can often be found travelling between Los Angeles, New York, and London. Nothing represents “Modern Times” like high-rise buildings, the “skyline” they create shows unmistakably where power and money are at home. The Babylonian impudence of humankind, trying to scratch at the sky itself, finds expression in these signs of urbanity. MTH though, refuses to resign herself to a mere exterior depiction, and instead tries to reveal the structures lying behind the surfaces. Here the “Old Boys Network” raises its phalli into the night sky of Wall Street, goes one extreme of a possible interpretation. The concerns here are real locations and well-known symbols of money and power, a relationship MTH also signals through the titles of her paintings: “Wall Street”, “Exchange”, “Manhattan”, etc. Also the pictures of this series are often entitled “Money”, which again establishes the evident connection between money, power, and the metropolis. On the other hand, we find many bright, radiant pictures, whose abundance of shapes and whose vegetative opulence does not appear to fit at all into this scheme. Like fairytale magic plants the soaring towers are strung together, leaning on each other, appearing to be alive. The yet again expressively employed colours make this a cycle of portraits depicting fictive and real cities, which confront the observer with eccentric personalities possessing a multitude of inner “values”.