I have been painting alongside my work in theatre since the beginning of my professional career. This work has been a source of inspiration and has stimulated my scenography. Painting is a medium through which I explore unknown paths and worlds. Sometimes it is like a shamanistic journey, at other times it is an experience of concentrated precision.
Since 1985, I have worked in different styles and with different techniques - crayons, egg tempera, acrylic, ink, graphic, etc - and on different grounds. In 1996 I began studying Orthodox Icon Painting with a private teacher. My series of works are very different from each other, each series characterized by a specific technique and the specific research that was driving my needs and interests in that period.
Shown below are examples of my painting from different series.
DIA/PAINTING
(1997)
Micro painting, graphic and chemical interventions on photographic slide film. The original slide images are mainly landscapes. The film of the slides captures the illusion of a moment in time, while on the same surface graphic-pictorial interventions have been added that modulate the illusion of reality into an emotional space.
Available as a slide show exhibition and as photographic exhibition.
THE BOOK-CASE (in progress)
Ink, collage, objects and mixed techniques on/in books. Size aprox 20 x 25 cm.
A book as reproposed as icon of knowledge, information and propaganda. The viewer develops an intimate relationship with bookcase.
COLOUR YOUR HEART (1991)
Acrylic on canvas and acrylic on wood. 7 selected works.
Size approx. 90 x 390 cm.
These works were made in connection with a performance.
Colour Your Heart (Teatret
Om) was performed between 1991 and 1999 at theatres, festivals, museums
and cultural centres in Europe. An exhibition of the work was shown in
Cardiff, Wales Italy, and continues to be regularly exhibited at Odin
Teatret, Denmark during festivals and other events.
THE INNER PART OF THE WIND (2001)
Technique: ink and gauche and mixed techniques on paper.
24 selected works. Size of the approx. 25 x 35 cm
The painting are inspired by urban and suburban graphics, by fast gestures, by a poetic handwriting of the image. Seven of these works are inspired by the book 'Hero and Leander, or the inner part of the Wind' by the contemporary Serbian writer Milorad Pavic.
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