Daniela Magg is a
‘born and raised’ native of Windhoek, Namibia. After completing high school,
she furthered her studies in the field of ‘biokinetics’,
a scientifically designed set of physical activity programmes tailored to
individual needs, in Pretoria, South Africa, for a period of five (5) years. Upon
her return to Namibia she opened a biokinetics practice in the suburb of
Katutura, in partnership with her brother.
Her interest in art emerged at a very young age when she started
drawing cartoons while appraising life and her surroundings with an open mind,
augmented by a wonderful, internal world
of fantasy. As her levels of maturity, confidence and skill in her craft developed,
she increasingly longed to express her interpretation of the world beyond the
usual boundaries and limitations. This is apparent from the unusual material she selects to
function as painting surfaces such as a good piece of wood she found at a scrap
yard or on the side of the road, instead of canvas stretched over a wooden
frame. Environmentally conscious, Daniela adds dimension to her work by
preferring to recycle ‘used and
found’ items into her art.
The unique painting surfaces aside, Daniela Magg isolates an
object in her paintings, for the purposes of aesthetic emphasis, and presents
it as a three-dimensional junction to the actual painting (separate and yet
part of), thereby lending depth and exclusivity to each work, subconsciously hinting
at more than what is apparent to the naked eye.
Daniela Magg’s unique and in her own words ‘a little
strange’ exhibition is aptly christened ‘The World is Your Canvas; Paint Your
Own Picture’. You are hereby invited to join her for the official opening of
her first solo exhibition at Omba
Gallery on Monday, 21 October 2013,
at 18:30. The exhibition will run until the 10th of November
2013.
For more information:
Omba Gallery: Shareen
Thude
Tel: (061)
242 222 / 081 124 0982
E-mail: craftcentre@iway.na
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