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AN EXPERIENCE BEYOND THE WORDS anima of the stone, wood, bird, cables and bundles, and the serpent
(if we will mention only some of them) - but all those universal
“As a world born in its purest hour” – these are the words Michaela dreams receive the artist’s personal accent. These and other motifs
Bocu used to describe the textile poems of Erica Weisz-Schweiger return many times, each time with another new meaning.
on the occasion of the opening of her personal exhibition at the
National Museum of Arts in Cluj in 2003. The works of this artist Sometimes it’s the way of the memory and of forgetting. But the
are something between a carpet and a painting. As she herself stone, for instance, has many meanings - between Scylla and
sometimes says, “I don’t use colors as makeup on the canvas, but Charibda, to the stones on the Temple Mount, or the crystal of the
I try to transform it into a body, into the essence of creation.” philosophic stone. A special place is also occupied by the symbolism
of the water and the fire, which sometimes change functions
The carpet is an object made of material, but at the same time it is between themselves.
a purely spiritual creation. Through colors and forms, it brings a
variety of human experiences that come during the entire course Weisz-Schweiger’s style is strictly opposed to the minimalist
of our lives and define and determine our destiny together with tendencies accepted by so many contemporary artists, from which
our most profound existence. Our joys, euphoria, sadness, her works differ both in form and contents. The artist has a full and
rebellion, losses, loneliness, religious beliefs, and hopes are total control of this overflow of information, the orchestration of the
brought here by way of the symbols of the general human colors and forms, and she produces a way of unification that
subconscious. As described by Jung, these are the animus and succeeds to communicate this experience. There exists a real

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