Milena Dragicevic
dal 17/1/2011 al 4/3/2011
Segnalato da
17/1/2011
Milena Dragicevic
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
The artist's new series of paintings, Erections for Transatlantica, is closely connected to her work of the past years. This new series can be understood as a bricolage of form taken from outside sources alongside Dragicevic's own intuitive drawings.
From January 19 to March 5 2011, Galerie Martin Janda is showing the third solo exhibition of Milena Dragicevic. The artist’s new series of paintings, Erections for Transatlantica, is closely connected to her work of the past years. Whereas the Supplicants are derived from using the human face as a starting point, and works like aalliraujaq und tuksiarvik explore formal questions concerned with sculptural problems, the paintings of the new series can be understood as a bricolage of form taken from outside sources alongside Milena Dragicevic’s own intuitive drawings.
Although the Erections for Transatlantica may also evoke sculptural connotations in the viewer, the artist does not see them decidedly as sculptural images: “They do not suggest the gravitational weight of real sculpture, instead they are precisely what the title suggests, they are erections or offerings.” (Milena Dragicevic). The term Transatlantica refers to a fictional place of origin and alludes to Dragicevic’s identity as a Serbian immigrant who grew up in Canada and now lives in the UK. “Due to my nomadic existence this suspended space is a place I have come to inhabit on a regular basis. It is a space that holds both a utopian promise as well as the fear of an impending abyss.” (Dragicevic)
Milena Dragicevic, born in 1965, lives and works in London. Her work is currently shown at the British Art Show 7.
Opening: Thursday, January 18 2011, 7 pm
Galerie Martin Janda
Eschenbachgasse 11, A-1010 Wien
opening hours: Tue-Fri 1 p.m.-6 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
free admission