Clowns and the circus are a recurring subject in the arts. They are equally present in music: Through works like Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” and the “Circus Days and Nights” by Philip Glass, the clown has made his way into the world’s opera houses, inspiring Aga Cela, an artist with a central focus on portrait painting, to go on a profound creative journey.
International Artworks and Poems
Aga Cela was born in the German city of Heinsberg in 1959. Her studio is located in the small city of Echt. Her preferred subject are her fellow human beings, and portrait painting gives her an opportunity to explore their psychology and vulnerability. Her main focus is spontaneous facial expression. Her familiarity with her models enables her to reveal striking features in her clown’s faces and discover the hidden comedian in each of them.
Aga Cela “Clowns”
Bilingual art gift book with 36 artworks
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This music recommendation seeks to emphasize the innate connection between painting, poetry, and music. Schoenberg’s modernist composition mesmerizes us in the same way the clown’s performance allows us glimpses of a deeper truth. And just like we try in vain to make unequivocal sense out of the clown’s act, Albert Giraud’s poems only acquire a higher meaning through their unique synergy of words and tonality. Just like Arnold Schoenberg, Aga Cela makes no concessions to audience tastes but simply paints authentic portraits with a highly sensitive touch.
The printed book is available in the book trade and in internet bookshops:
- Publisher: Re Di Roma-Verlag
- Language: English, German
- Size: 21 x 21 cm
- Hardcover
- ISBN: follows
- Editor: Kurt Ries
Interested parties can purchase any number of the book from the German publisher or bookseller Peecho at the reduced author’s price. Please find more information here!
