Author: Anabel

My B1 format collages are an echo of the real world, of urban, industrialised society. Sometimes there are details of buildings, of city walls, sometimes there are ground plans of whole megalopolises, and sometimes they are abstractions. Playing with black and white fields smaller and larger squares, I seek my perfect form for just it:…

Scissors cut magazines, pen cut into paper, deeply and tenderly, alternately, and a spatial white world of letters in which I am still moving today opened up. (2011; published in Vjesnik, Zagreb October 1 to 2, 2011, and in the book “Pogled iznutra. Čitati s razumijevanjem” / “View from Inside. Close Reading”, Zagreb 2017)

In the “Grisailles” series in some of the paintings I apply the graphic procedures of polishing and erasing colours and so on. Wanting to preserve the visually self-sufficient grounds so created, I give up on the writing of a “wall” of letters, and decided to apply a single word or phrase: “seminatio”, “récolte”, “pepeljasto tlo”[ashy…

In the “Blocks” series, I deal with relations of columns of text and margins, that whiteness at their edges, using not the usually recommended typographical proportions among them but my own, which are artistically determined. (2011; from the book “Pogled iznutra. Čitati s razumijevanjem” / “View from Inside. Close Reading”, Zagreb 2017)

The cycle “Paper and Scissors” (see Jacques Derrida) originated in the procedure of the collaged construction and deconstruction of my own works. From it, in a different technique (oil on canvas), the “Analogue Structures” developed in which, by a reduction of linguistic communication (letters and words), a pictorial minimalism of form was emphasised: poverty, simplification,…