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3/11/2007

Svetlana Kuliskova

Municipio, San Giorgio Canavese (TO)

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Ricomincia la stagione del comune di San Gioegio Canavese via Dante 25 con una mostra particolarissima ed avvolgente di Svetlana Kuliskova dalle forme morbide e sinuose, tonalità di colore sfumate, figure astratte impalpabili, volutamente indefinite, creano effetti del tutto originale e, spesso, suggeriscono atmosfere oniriche, offrendo sempre il punto di vista molto sensuale e femminile dell’autrice.

''Questa tecnica'' dice la Kuliskova ''secondo il mio parere, da’ qualcosa in più rispetto al tradizionale dipinto: è il calore che trasmette, c’e qualcosa di magico nei colori. È proprio il materiale, la lana, che, per quanto sia utilizzato ancora nello stato grezzo - in fiocchi oppure cardata - , riesce a trasmettere, al tatto, una sensazione di purezza…''

Strato dopo strato, colore dopo colore, la Kuliskova crea la sua composizione definitiva, senza disegnare antecedentemente nessun abbozzo o traccia figurativa, avvalendosi in alcuni casi anche di materiali e tessuti diversi dalla lana, in una sorta di collage tessile.

Le sue ultime sperimentazioni, ad esempio, prevedono anche la utilizzazione di lana su plexiglass, per la realizzazione di quadri luminosi o lampade. L’opera di questa giovane artista ceca raccoglie, indubbiamente l’eredità della grande tradizione decorativa dell’arte mitteleuropea.

Le donne sono pure, quasi algide nella loro ineffabile superiore indifferenza guardano ad un’idea di donna – divina, anche se di una divinità pagana. Recentemente l’artista, con la sua video-installazione ''USVIT'', nella quale tratta il tema della nascita, è stata parte della presentazione del libro Femina Fera di Fabrizio Portalupi, racconto per immagini fotografiche della pura essenza femminile, tra bestialità e spirito.
Colori freddi e caldi si accostano e si sovrappongono, spesso per rappresentare le forze opposte e contrastanti che presiedono al mistero della vita, come in PROMETEO, l’eroe mitologico che ruba il fuoco agli dei per donarlo agli uomini e consentire loro di godere della tecnica per dominare la natura.

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The AUTHOR and the TECHNIQUE

Svetlana Kuliskova was born in the Czech Republic in 1970. She graduated from the Textile Secondary School specializing as a stylist in costume design. She then continued her studies of visual Art from 1998 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical University of Brno where she specialized in “Video, Multimedia and Performance”. For four years Svetlana Kuliskova worked as the artistic assistant at the Art Domus Studios in Brno, where in the 1960’s a particular technique known as ART PROTIS was developed and copyrighted. Several prominant Czechoslovak artists at that time gathered at one of the industrial textile factories and acquired the space to create!

Something quite incredible during that period of deep comunism which tended to pull down creativity and personal expression. This was all thanks to the director who had a love of art. The contrast between serial fabric production and original artistic creations was also unique. Not to mention the contrast of the delapidated 19th century building and the beauty that was produced within that space. There are only a few artists that have remained faithful to this technique, after the mere demolition of the space; after the arrival of “democracy” a supermarket was built in its place. One of the artists who persisted in this path is Svetlana Kuliskova who learned this technique from her mother. Brno still remains the only place where ART PROTIS tapestries are created.

The particularity of this technique is based on the use of crude Australian pure wool which is manually overlapped and layered by the artist; as it becomes distributed, cut, mixed, wrapped, and ironed, the woolen image changes its shape and colors. It is interesting to observe how the artist creates one definitive composition without the use of a first draft. Sometimes Svetlana, in her work, also uses various textile materials until she obtains a sort of textile collage. The tapestry is held together at one end by a seam (visible from a distance of approximately 50 cm) and the entire surface of the work is held together through the use of one especially constructed machine which gives the work a particular trademark texture. The final tapestry has a canvas behind it which becomes the “lining” on which the brand name ART PROTIS is applied, the name of the artist, the dimensions of the work, the number of the original and the “Molantin” tag which means that the wool has been treated against moths. After the piece is finalized it is signed by the artist.

“In my opinion this technique offered something more than traditional painting. It’s the warmth that transmits, there is something magical in the colors. It’s just the material, the wool, when it’s still in its pure state - in flocks or carded already - touching transmits the purity…

After having worked figuratively for a period (I dedicate myself to painting and drawing from a young age - but I have been doing this type of work with wool for 20 years already) I arrived at abstraction, I’m fascinated by the power of color, the thinnest layers of wool overlapped, their transparency, I love to use what the wool has to offer as a material and how it behaves by itself. The heavy brushstrokes of the wool, it really seems like a painting. In the figurative work, for the most part women, (which I now only make to order) I try to express the antique woman, a sort of woman-archetype, that comes from ancient times when she is still venerated as a goddess. Also when the figure becomes merely a torso slightly demarkated (suggested), I’d like to imagine that the space where they move is without time…

Presently I am working on luminous pictures, still with wool (on plexi-glass), and on lamps of the same material, or head boards and other accessories for furniture in which the wool or the tapestry will be able to become particular parts of the furniture; above all for eclectic and non-traditional residential spaces. These projects are created in collaboration with architects who put their experience to the service of a mutual artistic plan.”

Svetlana Kuliskova, a video artist, also dedicates herself to this activity. Her experience in the field of video art emphasizes a strong emotional sense, a relationship with the image that suggests thoughts and feelings as if they were sighs. In 2006 she participated in the event-exhibition “Femina Fera” in Turin, Florence and Monsummano with her most recent work “USVIT” in which she touches on the theme of birth.
Svetlana Kuliskova has recently exhibited in the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Hungary, Poland and Germany.

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via Dante, 25 - San Giorgio Canavese (TO)

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