Il surrealismo di Angela Keller è pieno di fascino, trasuda originalità e personalità, diventando simbolo di una nuova maniera d’espressione pittorica, riconducibile senza ombra di dubbio alla sola artista che gli ha dato vita. La capacità espressiva della pittrice, trova la sua massima espressione in opere che narrano di immaginifiche storie, dove gli animali volano e l’orizzonte non è mai dritto, in opere che suscitano nell’astante non soltanto la meraviglia legata al talento puramente tecnico e pittorico della Keller, ma anche, e soprattutto, la voglia di riscoprire il fanciullino che è in loro, abbandonandosi alla contemplazione estatica di un susseguirsi surreale di immagini, scoprendo che è ancora possibile sognare e vagare per i labirinti della mente, tinti di mille colori e sfumature, alla ricerca di quella libertà che spesso, solo l’arte in tutte le sue forme può concederci, per poi riportarci alla realtà.
La pittura di Angela Keller è sognante, surreale, lirica nel suo fluttuare tra fantasia e realtà. Animali volenti, elefanti leggeri come piume, Lune ‘animalizzate’ rendono le sue opere pura immaginazione, riprendendo alcuni elementi reali, come le case ammucchiate in prospettive verticali della terra calabra in cui vive, oppure sfondi di cielo e mari infiniti, il cui orizzonte si perde in una pittura soffusa, leggera, eppure ricca di materia. Al supporto ruvido della juta, l’artista aggiunge infatti strati di gesso e cenere, per poi creare cromatismi e toni bruciati, lievi, quasi monocromi nella loro raffinata stesura. All’ironica giocosità immediata del soggetto, subentra pero una lettura più profonda, in cui lo sguardo dell’artista si sofferma su attimi vissuti. Sono le serie dedicate alla famiglia, splendidi controluce vibranti di intimità, o quelle nate in occasione dei suoi viaggi, da Israele all’Italia, all’Africa, in cui l’artista coglie l’emozione di una sensazione.
“In Angela Keller’s work the dreamy balance of her art permeates unhesitatingly true-to-life concepts. The role played by colours is of primary importance for the entire narrative system and develops an interesting subliminal language. Keller identifies its own expressive dynamics by shaping a visionary and fanciful dimension, which is extremely eloquent and allusive, and by processing emotions, ideas, concepts and intuition. Visual and subjective reality bridges facts to imagination, developing into a playful and mysterious synthesis, capturing bystanders’ eyes and inviting them to an active role inside the painting and requesting their own interpretation for an open and lively exchange. Keller awakens surreal visions with a hint of dreams and fantasy, while fluctuating between surrealism and symbolism. She never leaves out substantial and introspective aspects by inserting psychological and existential content to be unveiled and decoded through insightful awareness.”
“The Boar” In The Catalog “Eccellenze”, Overview Of Contemporary Painting (2015)
“The talented painter unleashed her creativity in this painting. Claiming the artwork as with no reference models in the past is safely accurate. Therefore the viewer is called to examine a visionary experimentation which is extremely original, a carrier of a poetic and surreal intelligence and of an ironic essence where nothing is impossible.”
Taken From “Eccellenze” Catalog, Overview Of Contemporary Painting (2015)
“According to painter Angela Keller, painting is certainly a game. While playing it, she involves her most serious knowledge and intentions though. Her compulsion to paint and to express her imagination rises from an urge to unload, from a driving force focusing knowledge and freedom and, last but not least, from a need of expression. Therefore there is a necessity to communicate. The chosen means, even the most unusual, are her inseparable companions and tools for creation.”
Taken From “Eccellenze” Catalog, Overview Of Contemporary Painting (2015)
“Angela Keller’s pictorial art is always a surprise, an experiment, a new outcome of diverse facets, which reveals itself in great creative charm. Her need of expression may be different in each and every work, but what they all have in common is her inspiration. A vocation elicited more and more every day with stubbornness, intelligence and patient research.”
Taken from Art Avant-garde Catalogue (2010)
“Angela Keller uses a pictorial language inspired by impressionism. While her creation sparks from true-to-life images, she sets her subjects in an environment without time flow by employing chromatic couplings with calm and vibrant tones. A generous crosshatch and an ensemble of delicate brush strokes contribute to create a veil of mystery and expectation. She succeeds in realising the fugacity of existence and conveys it into her art.”
Solo Art Show In Cherasco, Palazzo Salmatoris (2003)
“The artist’s pictorial poetics is described by several critics: “Be it Angela Keller’s technique, be it the painting thrown over the chalk plaster or her ash-like palette: her work has always an evocative power, it introduces to submerged memories and feelings, it allows comparisons and analogies with the cultural background of the bystander. The paintings have sometimes the fine touch of detached frescoes, while the pastel works are worth of a Magical Realism art show. When she challenges the essence of shapes, there is a squared rhythm that reminds me of Giotta’s Carrà, the one of the Antigrazioso…”
Solo Art Show In Mango (2001)
“It’s every day’s life in its charm and partial ugliness which appears among the unusual crevices of the canvas and the sinuous effects of colours at play. Contradiction finds its own spot among the artist’s feelings: the symbiosis of contrasts creates a new sort of aesthetics, sprinkled with ironic and sad peaks and by tragic flashes. The interaction of contrasts may generate multiple feelings and emotional inspiration through free and variable interpretation: anxiety, emptiness, sadness, and condemnation of superficiality. Heraclitus’ Panta Rei reveals from the artwork as central theme of representation: every thing, shape and colour becomes an emotional stimulus in its uniqueness, in the present and in the fleeting time of its experience.”