Mircza Seiler Existential Cartographies
By Milagros Bello, PhD
“Art is freedom: a gesture of creation, of passion, of love, of struggle, of emotions, of discovery.” Mircza Seiler
Mircza Seiler’s Life in Color Series unfolds as abstract landscapes of high symbolic density, where layers of chromatic overlays, graphic textures, and fragments of signs intersect to create a visual field of tensions and resonances. They are compositions that interrogate the very nature of abstraction, displacing it from the purely expressive gesture toward a conceptual terrain, where the pictorial encounters the textual, the organic intersects with the mechanical, and the sensorial intertwines with the coded.
The pieces erupt in corporeal resonances and psychological intensity where overlapping washes, dotted textures, and uneven, hand-applied marks—create a dynamic tension between control and spontaneity. A way to experience contemporary abstraction.
My Life in Black opens onto an atmospheric, almost liquid space, in which blue—deployed in multiple gradations—functions as a vibrant background. Inserted within it are precise geometric forms, particularly the rhythmic verticality of blue circles and the fullness of a single white circle, operating as graphic notations of encrypted abstract messages. The tension between the fluid and the structure reveals a poetics of the interval: an open flow that suggests breath and expansion, interrupted by signs that allude to the presence of a suspended symbolic system.
My Life in Purple, witha fragmentary, abrasive character, imposes itself in the intensity of purples set in fluid, irregular forms. The materiality of collage and typographic traces evokes strata of personal memory. Purple erupts as vital pulse, while textual fragments—fractured and displaced torn paper—recall a palimpsest of illegible remnants of inner discourses. The pictorial gesture is interlaced with graphics notations, producing a friction between the ephemeral and the permanent, between the expressive and the residual. The transparent blue background dissolves into aerial compositions, creating lightness and a sense of flotation. The work appears as a lyrical ensemble of evocative directions.
My Life in Fuchsia
The composition oscillates between the organic energy of elongated, fuchsia-colored forms and the geometric regularity of circles arranged in varied patterns. The fuchsia color, visceral and corporeal, intensifies in contact with a gradient of blues, which operate as an atmospheric container. The circles—some whole, others incomplete or fragmented—reintroduce the idea of codification, as if they were visual formulas or graphic scores. The tension between the gestural and the systematic generates a dialectical vibration: a play between the vital and the mechanical, between the spontaneous and the calculated, between reason and emotion.
Life in Color Series emerges as cartographies of the unstable, constructing a poetics of the fragmentary. Life in Color Series confronts us with the vital condition of existence: life not as serene harmony, but as constant friction between opposites that never fully reconcile. Color becomes a metaphor of this incessant conflict, embodying both fragility and strength, both the shadowed and the luminous.
The series stands as a pictorial manifesto that conceives abstraction not as formal purity, but as affective and existential field. In the dense blacks, the concentrated purples, and the explosive fuchsias, Seiler reminds us that to live is to inhabit tension, to sustain friction, to embrace it as the true pulse of the human condition.
Graphic signs and chromatic forms, pictorial gestures, and mechanical traces, in collages of paper and visual marks, operate as traces of conceptual abstractions in codification and openness toward the indeterminate.
Mircza Seiler’s works interrogate the very modes through which meaning is produced in contemporary art.
Milagros Bello, PhD
Curator-Art Critic
