Milanda de Mont

 

CRELALA Art Gallery Germany. Stories / Artists in Focus.

MILANDA de MONT Artist of the Month of December 2025.

Represented Artist by the Crelala Kunst Galerie, Germany.

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ART REVIEW

Milanda de Mont: ‘Freedom is palpable’ !

The sky over Australia, somehow there and then, is also a little bit here and now, when the abstract works of artist Milanda de Mont captivate viewers, and conversations with the artist, in both languages German and English make the day fly by.

 

Abstract Painting Title: BRING IT HOME.  Perhaps you recall Malevich’s Black Square and the fascination with darkness, which seems to possess such immense power and allure. Milanda de Mont’s darker works and abstractions exert a similarly powerful pull. You often hear visitors in exhibitions and museums say: “I could do that too.”

But No! Not everyone Can.

Art as a whole, not just the individual piece, the body of work, the artist life, everything that goes into it and the fact that a work can call out to viewers, move and touch them, that is; the unique Momentum, the Flow, that ultimately defines a work of art, it is not apparent to everyone. And sometimes it’s the colors that only a few viewers can see and recognize exactly the same way. Perhaps those who possess the same kind of vision, people with a magical eye. Perhaps that’s how one might describe it.

Those who look closely can also see if the work has been altered, whether segments have been taken out, perhaps to conceal some details and prevent the artwork from being copied. Only those who are truly interested and look closely, examining the whole thing in detail – in person – or at the numerous fairs, exhibitions, or museums where Milanda de Mont’s works have been shown.

Milanda de Mont’s work is not only shaped by her artistic training; the digital presentation also makes her work unique, color mixtures on canvas, mirrors of life’s phases, reflections of time! What is evident is letting go, the power of freedom!

In a conversation with the artist, she mentioned that sometimes you have to be able to let go. To let it go up in smoke, to open the door to something new, to the fresh wind that should once again blow through all the spaces, perhaps a north wind, after one of the powerful solar storms that regularly reach the planet and set in motion the particle movements that fill everything living and organic with energy and life.

Creating and creating, only to ultimately destroy it before, completely worn away by time, it is no longer recognizable what it once was. In Milanda de Mont’s work, one can sense a hint of this. And if you look closely, you might hear the melody of the violinist, with their bow, which only reveals itself when you look closely and lose yourself in the details.

‘This Magic’ is the defining characteristic of artist Milanda de Mont’s abstract works. Learning to see. Seeing what might be relevant in the moment of being. In any case, they are a mirror to the viewer’s own experiences, who may see, perceive, and recognize things quite differently than others. The interplay with perception is both complex and simple.

Everything is transformed over time. The laws of physics state that nothing is lost. Energy is conserved. The cycle of existence is evident in Milanda de Mont’s works. The explosive power of liberation… strength and power are preserved, the energy lingers, and the vibrant colors of the works illustrate why the ‘Artist’ was able to follow her path as she did. The wild abstractions could be an interpretation of pain. Or simply pure energy. The viewer is invited to lose themselves in these perspectives.

Milanda de Mont’s Abstract Painting: Title: POETIC MEMORIES, are luminous. Her lyrical abstract expressionism adds golden accents. The colors, still typical of Milanda de Mont, are increasingly filling the room! In lilac-pink-black-white, in the Poetic Memories.

To capture not in words, but in colors that is what defines Milanda de Mont’s work.

Painting Title: ABSTRACT COLOUR, is also the title of one of the internationally renowned artist’s works.The abstractions are more delicate, more detailed, the suggestion of gold is clear, almost as if one has peered into the primal force of matter into a reactor. Perhaps. Into the center of light. Perhaps. But perhaps that is merely a diffuse interpretation of one’s own perception, and only one of many possible interpretations. Orange, pastel blue, pink, the colors are equally important, almost delicate, one might say. All colors, including the colors of the sun, can be found in the artist’s work. Darkness, black, is now only present in traces, but with Milanda’s dynamic momentum.

Milanda de Mont has worked as artist for 40 years, 11 of them in Wiesbaden, Germany. Her lyrical abstract expressionism has been featured at numerous galleries, museums and art fairs, including the Germany’s Arte Kunstmessen Art Fairs, especially Arte Wiesbaden.

Inspired by nature and everyday life, the artist uses paint and enamel in free-flowing lines and brushstrokes with a pasty texture.

She works with a variety of media and techniques, and each piece is a spontaneous, controlled composition. Paintings, backgrounds, and surfaces are transformed into vibrant imagery.

The artist, who grew up in Australia, has won numerous Australian & international Art Awards. As a Recipient of Goethe – Institut Scholarships in 1996 & 2001 from Munich, she associated with Prof. Christian Meger the ‘Last Member of Group Zero’ at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. She became a master of illusion and abstraction.

Milanda de Mont’s artistic life has taken her to Sydney, NY, Tokyo, Paris, Monaco, Nice, Milan, Florence, Yerevan, Weimar, Düsseldorf, and Berlin. She has shared her artistic expertise as a lecturer in the Art & Media Sectors at the Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE in New South Wales, Australia, among other places.

Her participation in ART Expo N.Y. in 2013 & 2016 brought her to the heart of the Big Apple, the Grand Dame of the United Nations. As the Winner of the Gold Medals and First Prizes at the Iranian National Painting Competitions in Tehran, from 1967 to 1969, she is one of the exceptional artists who has achieved international acclaim. Her sensitivity to world cultures, her understanding of the nuances of communication, and her power to unleash creativity are palpable in all her works.

 

More information about the artist can be found on Milanda de Mont’s Artist Profile Represented by the Crelala Kunst Galerie, Benzheim, Germany.

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Art Critic Review Published By Dr. Salvatore Russo Ph.D. Art Critic, Rome, Italy.

Will you scream confessions of the soul and the psyche 

Milanda de Mont

Vortices chromatic join the power of the sign and going to be the new object of the narration. In the works of Milanda de Mont,  visual narratives are made via a genius of thought that explores the mind and shows its synthesis. The refined purity tract combines suspended moments, exalting in dense colours and pure colours, contrasts of signs that generate income, even when they are declined tone on tone with undeniable elegance. The nuances, contrasts of light and shade, the choice of colours are the result of a penetrating attention to the reality of the recognizable. Confessions shout. Will the soul. Whispers of the psyche. The main features of paintings,  expresses; Milanda de Mont,  its greatest interpreter.
The artist has been able to create a new visual alphabet whose symbolism refers conceptually to the complexity of the human intellect.

 

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2017 Art Critic Review By Pino Nicoletti Curator, Art Historian, Art Critic, Public Gallery & Museum Palazzo dell’Annunziata, Matera, Itlay.

The artist writes: “Life and art are inseparable and since art is the state of our transmission my work reflects the tension between immobility forces and those of the speed in which I look at the world. It is a mystical experience that conveys a sense of unity in its creative process, because art is not limited by reason, abstraction is a pure form of art in the bliss of freedom”.

The artist uses her “Performance” to better understand the viewer`s conception in order to interpret a stronger reality. She works with forms of matter and the colors, whose lights are reflected (sometimes) on their intangible shadows. Milanda imagines symbols and riddles in a sumptuous and elegant way with the help of the drawing, which resurfaces full of mysterious mobility and lightness as a track, a mark of thought. The creative vitality of the “Performance” has therefore an interpretation between the lines that make up and break down and create joints of singular figures. The composition is used here for the most part during the performance , while in the paintings are the shapes and colors that dominate and motivate the matter with a multiple coloring. In the unfolding of shadows and dreams, of shapes and gestures, the artist strives to give meaning and value to the reality that surrounds it.

All matter (with its chiaroscuro, abandonments, suggestions, references) is inserted into a strict attentive forms system. There is a close relationship between drawing and painting, while the lights and colors (with their strong contrasts) create vibrations that testify to a state of mind full of anticipation and trepidation. Inside a fantastic dimension we find an expressive magic scanned in a musical flow that is released on the web as to create a dance move. With a mature and innovative design language the color variations are made to multiply the effect of an ascension into the future. The artist takes us from materiality to spirituality in a physical and mental universe. In the blending of disciplines (drawing, painting, dance, music, lighting effects), in the free combination of colors, in the sense for decorative effects, in the tendency to superfluous details, in beautiful visual and musical connections Milanda introduces us into her itinerary to the wonderful. In this lively and changeable matter, light and supple, in this free gesture that connects the artist’s instinct to light we find a lot of poetry, passion and love for life.

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ART REVIEW 2024 BY

CRELALA KUNST GALERIE, Germany.

https://crelala.de

Aus den abstrakten Möglichkeiten dann eine Lebensphilosophie zu machen, als Artist der Welt zugewandt auf Reisen zu gehen und in den Museen der Welt gezeigt zu werden, weil die Arbeit wertvoll ist, das wird klar, wenn man der Künstlerin Milanda de Mont begegnet.

Ihre Art und die Art ihre Arbeiten zu präsentieren ist so besonders, dass man vielleicht nicht anders kann, als sich in ihrem Werk zu verlieren, um herauszufinden, was es ausmacht. Vielleicht ist es die Herkunft der Australierin, die eine besondere Art der Lebenseinstellung widerspiegelt. Esprit, Witz, Geist, die Weltoffenheit und Weltgewandheit, die Fähigkeit von einer in die andere Sprache wechseln zu können, sich ad hoc aufs Gegenüber einstellen zu können, Impulse mit auf den Weg zu geben und in ihr Werk einzufühlen, das macht die Künstlerin zu einem Stern am Künstlerhimmel, der Vorbild ist für viele Künstlerinnen. Offenheit zu zeigen, den Dialog zu suchen, internationale Beziehungen zu pflegen… nie brauchte die Welt die internationalen Botschafter mehr als vielleicht heute. Milanda de Mont hat viele Geschichten zu erzählen und es lohnt sich zuzuhören. Ihr begegnet zu sein darf man als Ehre verstehen, denn wer genau zuhört kann viel lernen, weit über die Kunst hinaus, über die Welt im großen und Ganzen, dem Planeten, der ein so fragiles Gebilde ist, der über Jahre seinen ungeschützten Blick ins Universum unter australischem Himmel freigegeben hat und immer wieder Botschafter braucht, die sich auf Friedensmissionen begeben und den Dialog suchen. Und Milanda de Mont ist ein leuchtendes Beispiel für eine besondere Art Weltpolitik, die im Gespräch ganz ohne die großen politischen Reden auskommt. 

 

Art Review Translation in English By CRELALA KUNST GALERIE GERMANY:

To make a philosophy of life from the abstract possibilities, to travel as an artist facing the world and to be shown in the museums of the world, because the work is valuable, that becomes clear when you meet the artist Milanda de Mont. Her way and the way of presenting her work is so special that you may not be able to help but lose yourself in her work to find out what it is. Perhaps it is the origin of the Australian that reflects a special kind of attitude to life. Wit, wit, spirit, the openness and cosmopolitanism, the ability to switch from one language to the other, to be able to adjust ad hoc to the other person, to give impulses along the way and to empathize with her work, that makes the artist a star in the artist’s heaven, the role model is for many artists.

To show openness, to seek dialogue, to cultivate international relations… never before did the world need international ambassadors more than perhaps today.

Milanda de Mont has many stories to tell and it is worth listening to. Having met her can be understood as an honor, because those who listen carefully can learn much, far beyond art, beyond the world as a whole, the planet, which is such a fragile entity that for years has released its unprotected gaze into the universe under the Australian sky and always needs ambassadors who embark on peacekeeping missions and seek dialogue. And Milanda de Mont is a shining example of a special kind of world politics that does without the great political speeches in conversation. 

 

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2010 International Contemporary Artists Volume 1 Art Book.

ICA Publishing US: New York City & Europe: Athens. 

Milanda de Mont Gregorian, Australian Contemporary Artist   

Her striking abstractions emerge and exhibit purity of her artistic expression as a means of liberation and above all creative energy of life. Fluid brushstrokes, display a vibrancy of their own. Her paintings reveal and reflect love and joy of colour, flowing in rippling paths. The interaction of interrelated forms, movement, energy, space, lines, emotion, create interplay, stretching the form in harmonious compositions beyond the physical limits of the canvas. She states:  “I am in a constant visual dialogue with my art; I cross through the unknown territories to find a voice celebrating and marking its individual quality. My inspirations of nature, aesthetics, experiences, mediums used, lead my painting process, transforming the surface into a dimension of unified pictorial imagery”.

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Art Critic Review: 2010 ArtisSpectrum, Volume 23 and 24, Publications, Chelsea New York, USA.

Milanda De Mont’s enamel paintings exemplify her ideas of artistic expression as a means of liberation.  De Mont’s fluid brushstrokes exhibit a vibrancy and life of their own.  Inspired by the energies and movement of nature, De Mont is able to personify these energies through colors, lines, and forms that transform the canvas into a unified living image.  De Mont describes her process as energetic and spontaneous. “I let myself be carried away without resistance while my entire being is dedicated to the free-flowing expression of line, color and form as it coalesces into living imagery.”  Influenced by the physical urges of Abstract Expressionism, her paintings unleash the fury of Franz Kline with the colorful lyricism of Helen Frankenthaler. Each painting sustains its own unity while at the same time encompassing a vivid, distinct, abstract expression that is universally appealing.  De Mont’s appeal lies in her ability to express relationships that exist between nature and mankind. The abstract forms De Mont creates express a unification of these natural and humanistic elements.  Her artwork creates a visual dialogue and artistry, synthesizing her observations in her lifelong artistic career as painter and world traveler, truly embracing a global consciousness.

 

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Personale 5, Naples exhibition, October – November 2011

Milanda De Mont  – 14 October 2011

By Christian Iorio, Art Critic, Naples, Italy.

Essere nell’arte in veste di traduttrice del movimento, essere l’arte creata come interprete d’un trasporto che si riversa sulla tela attraverso un gesto continuo, essere viaggio, fluidità e materia liquida: la pittura di Milanda De Mont nasce come sinestesia, come superamento del codice espressivo che annega i limiti dello spazio in sovrapposizioni e accostamenti di colore e corpo, di visione e gesto artistico. L’opera della pittrice gioca con i piani dimensionali e pulsa nel tentativo di contenere la totalità dello spazio vitale. Non sa prescindere dal movimento, lo scruta criticamente fino a disperdersi in esso, fino a lasciarsi sopraffare aprendo così una porta interiore. Dal neonato varco di luce passano vento e tempesta, transita indisturbata e rarefatta l’aria poetica, parte l’impulso generato e ricondotto alla sfera cinetica. C’è il viaggio nella genesi dell’intenzione pittorica. Viaggio come esperienza vissuta lungo il percorso vitale tra Armenia, Australia, Germania; viaggio come prescelta dimensione stabile che possa spiegare, con una felicità disperata, l’indole di Milanda De Mont. Twisted Clouds, Amber Glow, è già impressione fonetica il risultato del lavoro cromatico, è già flusso che infonde l’artista, la trafigge, esplodendo come sintesi. L’impatto delle cromie è fascino per l’osservatore, è potenza che induce l’occhio a rincorrere un dedalo di curve sinuose e avvolgenti l’io più recondito. Non potrebbe esserci più chiara interpretazione dell’opera che l’osservazione dell’opera stessa, opera-varco che invita all’ingresso in una memoria in cui la pittura e il linguaggio performativo sono sedimentati e disciolti l’uno nell’altra. Eros vivo, nell’accezione di fusione e tensione, attraverso le opere di un’artista che apre il suo campo d’indagine agli influssi dell’arte concepita come totalità creativa ed espressiva.    

 

Translation in English:  

Being in the art as a translator of the movement, the art being created as an interpreter of a transport that is poured onto the canvas through a continuous gesture, to be travelling, flow and liquid material: the painting of Milanda De Mont comes as synaesthesia, as a mastery of the expressive code that drowns the limits of space and overlapping combinations of colour and body, vision and artistic gesture. The work of the artist plays with the dimensions of the plans and pulses in an attempt to contain the totality of the vital space. She does not know whether the movement, she critically examines it to disperse it, until she is overwhelmed and thus opens an interior door. From the newborn breakthrough of light wind and storm go through undisturbed, the poetic and rarefied air stays, the impulse generated and brought back to the kinetic sphere starts. There is a pictorial journey through the origins of intention. Travel as a lived experience along the path of life between Armenia, Australia, Germany; a journey as the chosen stable dimension that can explain, with a desperate happiness, the character of Milanda De Mont. Twisted Clouds, Amber Glow, we have already a phonetic impression from the result of her colour work, it is already a flow that gives the artist the stabbing, exploding as a synthesis. The impact of the colours is a fascination for the viewer; it is power that causes the eye to chase a labyrinth of sinuous curves that wrapthe innermost. We could not have more clear an interpretation of the work that the observation of the work itself, an entrance-gate work that invites to enter a memory in which, painting and performative language are sedimented and dissolved in each other. Live Eros, in the sense of fusion and tension, through the works of an artist who opens her field of investigation to the influence of art conceived as a whole creative and expressive. 

Christian Iorio, Art Critic, Italy.

 

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2016 Write Up By Chantal Lora Director

Galleria Monteoliveto 

Naples – Nice – Paris 

Gibert Ciervo Director

The artistic career of Milanda de Mont Australian Contemporary Artist, struck the attention of our Gallery since 2011, when we offered her a solo exhibition of paintings in our Gallery in  Naples. Her work at the same time represented full of energy, strength and colour, juxtaposed with emotion and poetry, rich, and fresh approach with her experimental ideas, including her body of works with her performances, collaborated with other art niches and immediate sensitivity,  which met our desire art:  “off the beaten track” which is the theme of the Gallery. The exhibition was hosted by a great public, success and critical attention from Naples, where her deep cultural and international experiences earned her the best in her appraisal of ‘Neapolitan style’, as well  return to the place where she could express her research. Her multicultural experience comes from her life journey: Australian nationality,  born into artistic Armenian family in Persia, further world travels to the USA, from a young age, the artist currently works in Germany.

With many successful exhibitions at national and international level, her cultural richness expressed in many art collaborations with artists from various professional art disciplines;  dancers and musicians.  She has recorded very interesting performances, a true artistic bridge between music, dance and painting ,  her works have a gestural flow on  large formats. 

Monteoliveto Gallery has enjoyed her work with singular harmony blend of Eastern and Western cultures that have come together in her life.  In 2012, we  presented her work at the GRIMALDI FORUM Monaco, during the Contemporary Art Fair,  ART MONACO ’12,  her works were appreciated by the public and the organizers of International Monaco GEMLUCART,  she was invited by the Director to participate in the Contest Monaco GEMLUCART 2012,  with the Theme: ‘Colours of the World’ . The following year, in 2013, she again was represented by our  Gallery,  a great success with the presentation on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France,  during the exhibition period of  ‘ART of the PROM’. In 2014,  collaboration with our Gallery followed two directions:

‘Back to Naples’ with her participation in the second edition of the contest ‘2014 PREMIO NAPOLI for Contemporary ART’ where her work ‘Head #2’ received 2 Prizes, from Communication Stratege Art Prize GEMLUCART sponsored by Director Laurence Garbatini, and second Prize by the ‘ARALYA editions’ France, with publication, dedicated article to her work. In addition,  with participation in Gallery 2 major Contemporary ART FAIRS  ‘ART 3F Nice’ and ‘Art 3F Mulhouse’ .  With exhibitions in  Naples &  Nice,  including  on the North East France, her works are also in private collections in Australia, UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan,  Yerevan. Certainly the success that she deserves.

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Milanda de Mont with her paintings, at the 2021 Exhibition Art Discovery Frankfurt