Naslov
Samostalna izložba "I recommend Vodka"
(Independent exhibition "I recommend Vodka")

Autori
Jazvić, Paulina

Izvornik
Cour de Justice de L’union Europeenn, Luxemburg, Luksemburg

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, izložba

Godina
2017

Ključne riječi
slikarstvo , samostalna izložba
(painting , independent exhibition)

Sažetak
Paulina’s paintings are done in a flat manner, without any illusions of per- spectival shifts. They posses neither voluminosity nor depth, with an ex- pressivity that is merely hinted at. as opposed to her earlier paintings, the colour is now mainly subdued, with occasional yellow and red accents, while figures which are often placed upon greyish and black backgrounds are rather drawn than painted. The texts are written in an irregular manner yet — besides the messages they convey — they form an essential part of the entire, tectonically firm and unified composition. Such composition obtains a special quality from the parts of collage made out from the piec- es of textile or alternately from the stratified layering of colour, executed as the minute expressionist sections. Wishing to reduce such painting un- der the visual art labels or categories, one could say it levitates between the contemporary equivalents of Bad Painting and Pop Art. This provides Paulina’s painting with both special quality and charm and, moreover, is a unique episode within the contemporary croatian painting. closeness with Pop Art is evident not only in the presence of text as an integral and constructive part of composition, but in the very iconography that is juxtaposed as an evident reaction to the dictatorship of consumer cul- ture. Paintings by Paulina Jazvić contain symbols and recognizable signs of today’s popular culture, which became the same regardless the part of the globe it arose in, because everything turned uniform and identical, everything became Pop Art. it is this monotony and the influence it exerts on the life and soul hygiene of an individual that Paulina Jazvić speaks about, using a particular first person singular, therefore the peculiar fe- male gaze. The author’s critique of society remains discrete, camouflaged by her own inherent charm and wit. nonetheless, it is reciprocally dependant on Paulina’s self-critique i.e. the permanent questioning of her own role as a woman and a mother, as well as of her personal intimacy and respondent mythology. Therefore the obligatory inscriptions on author’s paintings can be interpreted as the intimate journal entries, warning us of the negativities of society and ul- timately emerging as an individually awakened cry, a call to overcome the deviations of contemporary consumer society and to step out of petit bourgeois frames, since today Philistine mentality is much cheaper and at the same time crueller that it was, once upon the time. Mladen lučić

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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