Giulia Mouse creates her own taxonomy of joy

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syntags - a unique taxonomy of joy by color, material, structure and form.

SYNTAGS – At first glance, Giulia Mouse’s works are simply a source of joy.
You almost want to exclaim “Joy to the gods”, because all of her pictures seem light, cheerful, giving happiness – kissed by the muse.
If art has such an effect, it is because the pictures quickly enter our mind-set.
We recognize or find in the works, structures, forms or reflect associations that are linked or stored in our minds with pleasant experiences.
Once consciously or unconsciously linked, the result is what we simply perceive as “beautiful”.
Giulia’s pictures have the key elements for this approach and therefore have a particularly intense effect.
They find their way into our mind set very quickly.
“A successful work of art is a moment of complete joy. It’s about bringing beauty into dark corners”, the artist herself manifests, thereby setting high standards for herself and her art.
However, achieving this is not that easy and requires a great deal of artistic work.
“For me, painting is a balancing act between free emotion and controlled mastery. If there is disharmony or excess weight, this is transferred to the painting surface and leads to weakness and imbalance. You have to sweat, so to speak, practise letting go, being patient, correcting, recalibrating, breaking through walls, opening doors.”

In order to better understand this approach and thus the effect of her works, it is imperative to take a closer look at the artist herself and the nature of her oeuvre on the following pages.
Her abstraction, her use of color, the structure, the material, her form and, last but not least, her pictorial themes interact to create a unique syntax – a language, by which I mean not just a pictorial language, but an “alphabet” that can be understood universally.
An alphabet that provides each picture with a kind of label.
Admittedly, a label that is not necessarily identical for every viewer, nor does it necessarily correspond to the artist’s thematic intention.
But it involuntarily suggests itself.
In “newspeak” this is called a “tag” and so it is no coincidence that we have given Giulia’s works a label ourselves and combined this as syntax and tag to form “SYNTAG”.
We use our own symbol for this syntag and show our syntag associations to Giulia’s pictures on the following pages.
If you accept the syntag mind game, a fascinating process arises in the mind of the viewer.
The artist’s works are suddenly catapulted from the projection of the painting ground into the “here and now”, becoming set pieces of the real existing environment.
Art becomes everyday presence and vice versa.

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Artist giulia mouse

Internationally successful
Traded internationally

Exhibition 02 to 14–02-2022 Munich, Kunstraum LOT WIlDE MISCHUNG eins; Group Show

Publications “syntags”, 2023.
163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print Verlag

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