“Being Romy Schneider“, 2010 - Mixed Media: Photo, Typography, Digital.
A series of coincidences brought Martina Rall to explore and re-think the inherent nature of her work and provides a practical meaning to the American poet William Carlos Williams' quote: “The artist is always and forever painting only one thing: a self-portrait.” In 2009, she started her mixed media series “Being Marilyn Monroe”: Icon-Portraits, portraying herself an inspiring modern-day icon such as Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas, Romy Schneider, Michael Jackson and Grace Kelly.
In this work, Martina Rall reflected on Romy Schneider’s sensibility: “Romy only felt good when she was acting: ‘I don’t know anything about life, but everything about cinema.’ Cinema was her life. Her marriages failed. Her son died. I admire her beauty, her emotionality, authenticity and intensity in art”.