Author: Anabel

In the 180 × 240 mm series I played with “Parts of Speech” (nouns, verbs and so on), related with visual art, linguistic and communicological themes and mental states, trying to get the words and paintings written out (“Diptyque”, “Dialogue”, “Dilemma”, “Distance”, “Harmonia”, “Illusion”, all from 2012) in touch with as many as possible of…

These are paintings that depart from the page painting system. With a sensible enlargement of the letters, I relativise the pageness and the semantic value of the text. With the disintegration of the page and sentence units, more than ever before in my paintings the letter alone stands out, in its size, colour and graphy.…

I do these “Studies” in small formats and with means that enable me to work at greater speed; innovative ideas appear in them more spontaneously and any disposition to try out versions and put in different changes of a linguistic, drawing or painting nature can be spotted more easily. When I paint in bigger sizes…

Letter as picture? Just as I painted “Pages” from words and fragmented text, so by the repetition of inscriptions of the same letter, I create diversity (of execution) in monotony (of content). (2023; from manuscript)

The title of the cycle “Paper and Scissors” is derived from the title of the book” Silk, Scissors”, by Irena Vrkljan, the content of which is the life of the author. By interventions with scissors into catalogues, invitations and posters of my own exhibitions I create new pictures. These collages have a double authenticity, two…

While I was working on the “Studies”, in a deficit or surplus of concentration, the painting “Martek” was produced, an acrylic on paper, sized 240 × 320 mm. The previously painted red ground had for me an association with the red of Vlado Martek, and further interventions in black and white were a clear dedication…

During our training in the Academy of Fine Arts, my fellow printmakers and I were familiarised with the laws of typography, to equip us to make a decent layout of a printed text, enabling the reader to read without any effort. Truth to tell, in my paintings I do not abide by these laws, rather…