Laura G. Morales

Apart from her classical art studies and training, she was particularly influenced by her various travels abroad, in America, Europe and Africa. While the primary object of these journeys was the exploration of the landscape, the discovery of the art and culture of the various civilisations such as the Mayas, the Aztecs, the Tibetans, the Africans or the Greeks became an important basis for the creative work that was to follow. Her aim, however, was not to revive the antique traditions or to copy them. On the contrary, the artist here wants to investigate the cultural heritage through art and consequently understand the universality of cultures.

Laura G. Morales' paintings clearly belong to the tradition of the art informel. This artistic style, which developed in the 1950s as an artistic antipole to geometric abstraction, had as its manifest the free, "formautonome" and, to a large extent, non-representational structure, whether on canvas, paper or in sculpture. The spontaneous, intellectual, impulsive and emotional moment was to be shown automatically – the instant was to be transformed into art, unfiltered. The restrictive attachment to the form or to the object is undesirable in Laura G. Morales' paintings. She consciously chose the art informel tradition in order to be able to do justice to her many ideas, feelings, impressions and experiences. The influences that she was subjected to in her immediate environment as well as those experienced during her travels in various countries and cultures demanded unrestricted expression, i.e., complete abstraction.

Through art, according to Morales, all cultures and their expressive forms find themselves in constant correlation between that which the human being receives from culture and that which he contributes in return. This is the correlation that the artist wishes to emphasise and explain in her work.