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The Danubiana Gallery - Not so far away

The Danubiana Gallery of Modern Art is not so far from Bratislava center. Lets go there to find why the exhibition of paintings by Katarina Vavrova has been named So far away.

Works by  Katarina Vavrova in Danubiana Gallery
Works by  Katarina Vavrova in Danubiana Gallery
Works by  Katarina Vavrova in Danubiana Gallery

Curator of exhibiton Danica Loviskova writes:

The work of Katarina Vavrova has a special and important place in the context of Slovak contemporary art. She appeared on the Slovak art scene in the early 1990s after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in 1990, where she studied under Professors Albin Brunovsky and Karol Ondreicka in the Department of Book Illustration. She has remained faithful to her aptitude for figural depiction and developed it into a unique and inimitable graphic and painting form. The originality of her imaginative and poetic expression has attracted great interest abroad and she has received awards at several world-renowned exhibitions of bookplates, prints and paintings.

Katarina’s paintings are imbued with fertile imagination and her ability to combine real fragments of memories and experience with fascinating dreamlike figures of women and angels, animal and plant motifs, landscapes, architecture and ornaments. The amazing rhythm of her lines, and her delicate drawing softly embracing and characterizing faces and forms, is enhanced by color – magically vibrant, rich, bold, soft, pulsating with unusual shades, halftones, configurations and highlights. The delicate calligraphy of lines and dramatic hatching, and impressive colors are set against a rich textural surface. She masterfully exploits beautiful relief lines of Japanese handmade paper and permeates them with structures, colors, shapes and stories. Everything is left unanswered and endowed with new meaning, and the viewers are asked to comprehend and decipher these expressive metaphors based on their own sensitivity.

Reverberating with imagination and allegory, Katarina Vavrova’s figurative paintings undoubtedly represent the peak of the imaginative and poetic line in Slovak contemporary art. Her permanent dialogues on human alienation and reconciliation, on the emotional states of a soul swept up in the whirl of struggles and doubts, are exceptional and unique.

The exhibiton is open from February 16 till May 29, 2016.

Photos by: Danubiana, text: id

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Published: 2015-01-15
Updated: 2015-01-15

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