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Tunnel 2
Painting Acrylic
Size: 80 x 100 cm
1300 USD
Description:
Through her series of paintings "Tunnels", Anka Bajurin has set out in her first "real" exhibition to explore her
relationship with the world, herself and the art of painting and between the picture and the reality. In that she
does not mirror, mimic or imitate the reality, nor does she distort it, but introspectively, pulling the mirror
through tunnels, she presents her own inner self, emptied and experienced as an organic cavity which is the way
of flow of hidden contents that flow or stream through tubes.
"Cavity is a virtual, but empty confluence of existence", the picture of the inner becoming the picture of the outer
world, equally constructed or made, equally real and unreal.
Above and out of the world of dark, moist tunnels, trenches and bodies, one finds the azure, a boundless space,
an opportunity to breathe and move freely. By placing these two spaces side by side, Anka completes the picture
of interdependence of these two worlds which still remain incompatible.
Through their repeated composition, paintings are always divided into two spaces, the lower and inner with a clear
centre; and the upper, open, airy without a centre. Two parts of the composition are accentuated through the
juxtaposition of the painting techniques, linked together by the choice of the board as the base.
In her later works, coming out completely to the surface or from the other side, slowly showing the tubes on the
outside or at the end of the journey, the painter strips the board using rougher texture and motion. The banality
of the scene ending the cycle and the roughening of the painting technique indicate the closing, ending and the
introspective search and once again speak of the relationship between the inner and the outer since "the establishing
of the inner self is followed by the setting up of its relation to the outer world".
Slaven Tolj
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