# Interview surrounded by the concept: World Excellence #
What is excellence to you?
Excellence, as I understand it, means that someone is among the best at what they are doing in a particular, specific field.
So, who judges excellence? A top-class jury with a specific criteria catalogue?
Parents will cook their child’s favorite dish differently than grandparents or other relatives, in the way they like it most. When it comes to the child’s criteria and judgement about the meal, the parents are for sure excellent cooks.
Each criteria catalogue of different juries defines its own excellence level. In addition, every member of the jury also brings their own subjective criteria catalogue with them.
Excellence is always in the eye of the beholder!
What do you consider a runway to your success, i.e. what helped you “take off”?
It is very important for me to state first, that I never “took off”. I can only be a full-time artist because of the people who support and believe in me and my art. My parents are the biggest support one can imagine. Whether it is just talking with them about my different projects or about helping me with the packing and shipping of my artworks, they are the greatest. In addition, within the artworld, there were always people who gave me opportunities to show my artworks in different exhibitions and events, because they simply like my art, as they see it on Instagram for example. Therefore I could already work with amazing gallerists like Andreea Zecheru, Raimund Seidl or Shane Townley.
What do you consider growth?
I consider growth to be personal development over time, growing with challenges through the personal challenges of life and our time.
What do you consider success?
When it comes to my artworks, I feel successful when I can present my works of art to a broad audience, stimulating people to think about it. If you ask different people what they see in one and the same artwork, there are various points of view about what the artwork is really showing. When a person completes my abstract painting with their own individual mind and fantasy, and tells me about it, to discuss it, I feel like I could touch and reach them with what I am creating.
What do you consider uniqueness?
Everyone has unique qualities that define them and make them special. Uniqueness is defined by the fact that each exists only once. To apply this principle to art, I am very proud that my artworks are a very good example of uniqueness. Each and every single one of my artworks is 100% unique, definitely not reproducible by anybody.
Who are the people and why that you could include in a section called “as done by the best”?
In my opinion, Biontech founders Özlem Türeci and Ugur Sahin are two of heroes of our times. Not only did they develop the mRNA vaccine with a new mechanism of action against Corona, they are working also on a completely new method using mRNA, to fight cancer. The body will be trained individually to fight cancer itself, instead of chemotherapy!
What is special and new about the Corona vaccine is that no “real” virus is injected, just an RNA strand with a slightly modified construction line for the so-called spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Our cells use it to produce spike proteins themselves, which they present to the immune system. This then begins to produce antibodies against the spike proteins. If you get the real virus afterwards, the immune system already knows what to do.
What is your favourite habit that you could include in a section called ‘diamond pages’?
I am a dreamer. I like to have a coffee outside, thinking about the world at different scaling levels.
What is your favourite city and why?
When it is about a city I have visited physically by myself and its architecture, definitely Venice! It is not only more than impressive palaces and magnificent buildings, but how they constructed the whole region on islands and wooden stakes at that time is unbelievable. People go through their windows to step directly into their boats, to use the channels as their streets. Compared to modern cities with anonymous, “out of human dimension” skyscrapers, the buildings and bridges in Venice make up cosy spaces with a very special composition, layout and flair.
What kind of landscape around the world would you be able to include in a blue-green world?
The paintings I did with this color combination so far are about trees around lakes, but ocean side artworks are another example.
What is your wish for the planet we live in?
I wish the planet all the best, although it got the homo sapiens variant lately.
Monika Kovatsch, Artist, www.timeofart.gr
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