by MaRik

Artwork Description

Madness in Love

100.0 x 200.0 cm

Madness in Love Maria Kontogiorgou – MaRik Madness in Love is a raw journey through the turbulence of an impossible love. Created in Athens in 2012, these works reveal the body and soul undone by desire, grief, and obsession. Figures stretch and collapse, their eyes wide, their hearts exposed, their gestures caught between surrender and protest. Painted on fragile paper with urgent strokes, the images oscillate between humor and tragedy, grotesque distortion and vulnerable confession. A clown whispers sorrow, a figure clutches a bleeding heart, faces multiply into a chaotic chorus—each canvas a fragment of madness, a diary of longing. Through repetition and rupture, MaRik transforms private pain into a universal language. Here love is not idealized but confronted: absurd, wounding, obsessive, and, finally, redemptive. In their honesty and fragility, these works offer a paradoxical salvation—where sorrow becomes endurance, and madness gives way to serenity.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Acrylic

Genre: Expressionism