Browsing through this artist’s work, you will likely expect to read a text that intends to place the works of Alina Matsa within a specific context. So that she as well, can be classified within one of the trends, which shape the course of art. It’s a fact that we art critics, who know everything, have the tendency to jam the work of artists in “drawers” such as the textbooks of history precisely dictate…However, when I entered the studio Alina, I let myself be carried away, quite simply, to be seduced by color and emotion. I asked myself: “Can I really categorize the senses?” I fear that this would be the ideal way to sterilize the works from their truth… And the truth is that the “space” of Alina bursts with color. Color which flows in and off the canvas wanting to escape. Color borrowed from familiar seas and skies, from Mediterranean landscapes, exuberant and rich.  The technique she uses is mixed media and the surface is often treated according to the “rules” of Renaissance murals. Plaster, acrylics oils and varnishes “built” on wood or canvas, sometimes give the impression of depth and sometimes of transparency.  Spontaneous, honest and not at all accidental is the ease with which she reproduces traces of decorative stamps in many of her compositions: Not at all as “mannerisms” but as seal from her passage in the field of applied arts. Her work, is based more on emotion than on some complex mental processes rendering them above all, authentic. 

Krista Konstantinidi