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Berliner Morgenpost (Excerpt, translation Lutz Martiny)
Applying a sensitive and very precise brush she gives her paintings a vibrating dynamic and endless perspective...
The talent of the artist becomes even more distinct in her sketches as she portrayed for example Ingeborg Drewitz in 1983 authentically, or in her interesting studies of faces, made in New Orleans.
J. Klein, Berlin
Die Wahrheit (Excerpt, translation Lutz Martiny)
She interprets the environmental destruction, city characters, contemporary contradictions and threats reminding in certain aspects of Lionel Feininger, but applying a completely different form of expression. Time and again the subject of The Hague Convention absurdity of the protection of cultural goods in view of the threatening nuclear destruction of mankind. Embedded in this subject and the tracing of vandal tendencies which she pinpoints with scarce symbols in her sketches and paintings . . .‚ we can find vibrations and harmonies almost musically affecting the senses . . .‚ expressed in confidently traced tones of blue, ocher, green, compositions affecting like visions . .
Her portrait sketches, for example the one of Ingeborg Drewitz, show a clear and versatile eye for essentials
Iris Billaudelle, Berlin
Les Affiches-Moniteur (Excerpt, translation Lutz Martiny)
Sabine Martiny is above all a remarkable draftswoman. Her sketches and portraits . . . are documenting a piercing look and a skilled hand . . . Easily she sketches the personalities and perfectly reproduces atmospheres with a minimum of means. . . Compositions full of gestic and explosion show an ardent nature and, without any doubt, point out the anxieties of our times. These amazing . . . paintings don't hide the sketching talent of the artist, in fact they stress by their audacious expression her place in contemporary art. .
However, it seems to be the pathetic message of the exhibition in the Gallery L'Empreinte with her imaginative paintings or her serene reveries which associate Sabine Martiny more with the surrealists than those painters who are content in showing the appearance. Undoubtedly, this artist has to teIl us much more, may be even to reveal.
J.C., Strasbourg
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