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VANJA STRUKELJ from
the preface of My
Sisters (Sorelle mie) The point of tangency between
painting and poetry is born from the possibility of evoking a portrait,
albeit distant and symbolic, and to bring to the surface fragments of
features destined to break up on empty white sheets of paper. The “words”
pouring from the images are seized by the dictionary of history and turned
into a continuous flow of Art Nouveau cadences; Cinderella cites “The boy
bitten by the lizard”, the Canovian Julia shows off the exasperated
turgidness of her lips, Cleopatra and Lucrezia find Klimtian evocations in
the contrast between the photographic illusionism of the face and the flat
decorativism of hair styles, mediated through the mis-en-scène of the posters
by Mucha. Elsewhere the sketchings seem to bring back Durerian memories. However,
the focus of these loose pieces is the persistent study into the details of a
few significant elements (the mouth, the hands, the face). They grasp the
attention of the spectator for their centrality, for their eye-catching
plasticity, for their sensual exhibitionism. These, however, are destined to
undergo a process of metamorphosis, to lose their physicality and to take on
different forms of matter, to blend in the shade and to disappear. And thus
the sketch follows poetry into the secret alchemy of words. |
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