Author: Neva
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Tautologies
In childhood, learning letters, by the method of identification, we correlated name words and images of objects, making use of tautological procedures. Among the tautological paintings I have done over the years, I differentiate those that are patent (“blackness”) and those that are less obvious (“360 g/m2”), where for example it is necessary to recognise…
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Letterocracy
My written texts have to be distinguished from my painted texts. In the “Letterocracy” project, I bring them together. The result is that the text is no longer subordinated to the pictorial elements. Now it sends its express and clear communicational messages. “Letterocracy” [“Slovokracija”] is the title of an exhibition but also of a painting…
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Lines
This group brings together works produced for various reasons and at different times, linked by the dominant mainly linear verticals. They might be bare lines, or another time meshed structures, a third time sequences of blocks, then chains of the letter “n”, written out lines of text and other things. In this geometrical order, organic…
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Air Show
In the larger size “Air Show” works I make use of a gestural manner of painting, one long subdued: many character elements of the picture are covered in paint, the density of material prevails as well as the collisional character of the aerial vortices. (2023; from manuscript) The “Air Show” cycle is exuberant, dynamic, adrenaline…
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Air Show (small)
At some point, the more concentrated eye will observe in the collaged entanglement (apart from the playful acrobatics, the flypasts and loops, the climbs, dives and so on), on the bodies of the planes, their fuselages, wings or tails, as well as in the relatively compact backgrounds (of earth and sky), traces of my biography,…
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