YOUNG, BOLD, FUN!
There are hardly more apt words to describe the contemporary pop art style of the Austrian artist Mario Stroitz alias Maja. The Austrian's style is unmistakably based on the style of great American modern artists. Numerous points of identification can be found with Pop Art of the 1960s, but the artist Maja developed this style further and transferred it to the present. Through the use of neon or fluorescent colors, Pop Art has arrived in the now. The stencil graffiti design of the background also contributes to this and locates the works within contemporary positions with influences from the increasingly present and common area of street art.
Based on Roy Lichtenstein, who also concentrated on the comic genre, Maja ties in with his modern version of Pop Art.
A relevant character, a rudimentary topic becomes a story through a single image. The protagonists of his latest works are well known to every viewer, from film, television, or comic books from childhood or the present. Their actions are often action-packed, often comically ironic, always engaging in their simplicity. The bright colors, the reducedness of the depicted facilitate access to the works and the recipient quickly finds himself again in the trendy imagery. The artist's latest works from 2019-2021 bring grandeur and glamor to the work of art using brass, glitter, and neon, and fluorescent colors.
Never stagnant, always in action, and always in the middle of life, Maja’s works of art seem to meet our world with enough wit, humor, and irony. Enough for any viewer to deal with this world!
