Once you have lived in a place, it becomes ingrained in your soul…This single sentence could be my summary, my key phrase to Mary Domart. She might as well be the next sequence of our unintended "feminine force" set.
The young Mexican painter has lived for several years (and found her better half) in Hungary before moving to Barcelona. She is a self-taught painter with a delicate style. Naïve forms, vivid colours and a feminine touch characterize her pictures. Strong emotions expressed in images make the exhibition a unique experience. She herself claims to prefer abstractions, yet, at the exhibition we find some urban memories as well.
Mexico, Texas, Budapest, Warsaw, Barcelona – a personal shi/story
You must agree that living in a foreign country is not easy. After having experienced different cultures, you lightly think you have enough routine for the next endeavour, but this is never the case. It tu
rns out you have to fight for your life wherever you are. The paintings inspired by the five places she has lived in are a landscape of personal memories: the traditional Mexican skulls, Frida Kahlo, FC Barcelona, the Chain Bridge or the streets she lived in all tell us something about her. On the canvas we can identify the things that were determining in that period of life. She gives an insight to her intimate moments: Budapest is vibrating with Love and Optimism.
rns out you have to fight for your life wherever you are. The paintings inspired by the five places she has lived in are a landscape of personal memories: the traditional Mexican skulls, Frida Kahlo, FC Barcelona, the Chain Bridge or the streets she lived in all tell us something about her. On the canvas we can identify the things that were determining in that period of life. She gives an insight to her intimate moments: Budapest is vibrating with Love and Optimism.Every collage in this series contains a Mexican (female) freedom fighter, a guerrera, she identifies with. “Things change, people change… so let’s move on!” But there are some things that are permanent. On one hand, a strong woman, who still has to start again from scratch every time she moves to a new country. No matter where we live, we have to find out things and make our way everywhere. On the other hand, although she incorporated something from each culture she encountered, she remains truly Mexican.
Passion, light, smile! Words often hidden among her images make our understanding deeper. The last set of paintings collects some phrases she picked up in the four cities. Reading these treasures I understand how one can be so radiant and smiling.
“The best happiness is peace”
“A single word can change everything, think positive”
“If you fall off the bicycle of life, you should get back again” followed by
“I am what I think” and
“thoughts have an extraordinary power” –
if someone is lead by such principles, it can only lead to a blissful life. Dear Hungarians (and other pessimists), here comes your gorgeous mental trainer! =) Just obey, you won’t regret it! Deal?
“The best happiness is peace”
“A single word can change everything, think positive”
“If you fall off the bicycle of life, you should get back again” followed by
“I am what I think” and
“thoughts have an extraordinary power” –
if someone is lead by such principles, it can only lead to a blissful life. Dear Hungarians (and other pessimists), here comes your gorgeous mental trainer! =) Just obey, you won’t regret it! Deal?
Peace, 
So simple!
So simple!Is it really? Lost in time and space among the abstractions, sexual connotations, and thought provoking images I was caught by two separate acryll paintings of Peace – contrasting the positive attitude to life of her other works. Peace is a strange concept. We all strive for it, yet it seems that we get more and more far from this idea. The world is full with tension and sparks; gaps and barriers between people just got bigger, one cannot even find inner peace anymore.
Solution?! Go back to your roots and open up to imbibe new experience. Mary Domart is the living example that it works!
PS: Do go to opening ceremonies of exhibitions. You get a chance to have a relaxed chat with the artists and meditate on the pictures with a glass of wine in your hand. Priceless!!!
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Through MAY 5.
Milleniumi Kávéház (Szeged, Dugonics tér 12)
FREE
