Marco Riha
Born: Austria
Live: Mexico
Website url:
marcoriha.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/198847040155829
Marco Riha was born in Austria. After some years on the road, he found in Mexico his creative home base. The self-taught artist looks back on 25 years of experimenting with the automatic painting technique, where he puts aside his conscious thoughts and accesses images from the subconscious mind. During his symbolic period, he worked with different mediums, mainly oils on canvas, which includes inner and outer travel logs, therapeutic releases and screams in colour. His current abstract phase produced some socio-political pieces shifting the focus from personal to collective themes brings up the age-old question of the artist as a moral compass.
What is so unique about your artworks?
What differentiates my art is that it describes my very personal soul's journey—an artistic quest laced with my unique sweat, tears, dreams, and visions.
How do you deal with artist's block?
Throw some colour on a canvas
Can you tell us what you have going on right now?
I just finished a new series called ‘midnight-flowers’, after Tokyo my work will be shown in Dubai in November.
Which are your favourite artists?
DaVinci & artists of the Automatism tradition: Masson, Dali, Pollock and of course, Le Automatistes from Quebec like Borduas.
Best exhibition ever participated in…?
Colour of Life, Saatchi Gallery in London
What is your life quote/motto?
To be in the flow
How does your work comment on current social or political issues?
Since 2014 I have been producing some socio-political pieces about multiculturalism (‘encounters’), ecocide (‘crocodile-on-fire’), freedom (wall-melt’) and latest division and unity (‘2sides’ & ‘1heArt’)
Professionally, what’s your goal?
To become a household name
