The existent and the possible. Interview with Erzsébet Lieber

Abstract

Erzsébet Lieber DLA is a Munkácsy Prize-winning artist, associate professor at the Rippl-Rónai Art Institute of MATE, Kaposvár. After graduating from the University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, she returned home to teach at the art high school in Kaposvár and then worked as a lecturer and dean of the Rippl-Rónai Art Faculty at the University of Kaposvár. For a long time, paper was the dominant material of her art: paper pulp served as the basis for her artworks, and she was also active as an organiser of paper art symposiums. For the past 15 years, she has produced images using a camera and the computer. The starting point for her works is often a series of photographs that capture the interplay of water and light – she transforms them using various image modification techniques to create abstract compositions that reveal different possible worlds to the viewer. She calls these works ‘objective paintings’ because, despite the use of technology, they are the result of her painterly approach.