ARTISTS STATEMENT – Catherina Zavodnik
Over and over again I keep returning to the sea. It has always been present. The high tide that brings – questions/issues. The low tide that reveals – the debris. In between there is time once again, a man’s relationship towards the existence, ways of one’s own activity in space. A man is constantly tied to its past. Though wishing to eliminate it, it will subconsciously have a strong influence and one shall carry it along into the future not yet begun, to the future in which this man sees new expectations, realisations, even if they seem utopian and unrealistic. The high tide, the low tide – the arrival and departure. Understanding the meaning of losing and letting go , depletion and the disappearing in the consciousness, fading of one’s old, past self and finally - comprehending such an experience. All this represents a key to understanding of my own existence. Water as a symbol of life, streaming revelation that resembles an equation with two solutions. There are desires, there are fears - and there is love. Death, however, is relative as one cannot pass away in its own future, it has not been verified and it only exists in the world we get to perceive later. All these questions affect me. They pass through me, they interest me. Who is my father? Who is my teacher? I know only that there is one. He helps me see things I miss and shatters the darkness of my ignorance. It is rather hard to achieve realisation having no teacher to guide you. After being accepted to the one of the most important open submission exhibitions in Northern Europe, Forårsudstillingen/Spring Exhibition 2011 in Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, Denmark), where my painting titled September was chosen by The Jury that review over 3000 submitted works, I continue my work with new, different, very femminile energy. Northern lights left me a dream. Beauty, poetics and seduction. I comprehensively interweave all of my artistic passions and knowledge into the planning and execution of my visual art projects. Various creative techniques democratically take part in my visual art expression. My work is characterized by a high-level of poeticism and aesthetisation. In my works I strive for purity, light and affection. .............................................................. IZJAVA UMETNICE Vedno znova se vračam k morju. Ta je venomer prisotno. Plima, ki prinaša – vprašanja. Oseka, ki razkriva – naplavine. Vmes ponovno čas, človekovo razmerje do vsebivanja, načina lastnega delovanja v prostoru. Človek je nenehno vezan na svojo preteklost, čedasiravno jo želi odstraniti, podzavestno močno deluje nanj in jo nosi s seboj v še nezačeto prihodnost, v kateri vidi svoja nova pričakovanja, uresničitve, pa čeprav se zdijo utopična, nestvarna. Plima, oseka - prihod, odhod. Razumevanje smisla izgubljanja, spuščanja, izginjanja, razblinjanja v zavednem, izginjanja lastnega jaza iz preteklosti in naposled dojemanja tovrstne izkušnje. Vse to predstavlja ključ do razumevanja moje lastne eksistence. Voda kot simbol življenja, pretakanje razodevanja, ki je kot enačba z dvema rešitvama. So želje, so strah, je ljubezen. Smrt pa je relativna saj človek v svoji prihodnosti ne more preminiti. Prihodnost namreč ni preverjena in je resnična zgolj v svetu, ki ga zaznavamo potem. Vsa ta vprašanja se me dotikajo. Me prehajajo, me zanimajo. Kdo je moj oče? Kdo je moj učitelj? Vem le to, da tam je. Da mi odstranjuje pomanjkljivosti v mojem pogledu ter uničuje temo nevednosti. Brez učitelja težko prideš do uresničitve. Potem, ko sem bilas sliko September v konkurenci preko 3000 umetniških del sprejeta na najbolj pomemben javni poziv umetnikom v Severni Evropi Forårsudstillingen/Spring Exhibition 2011 v Kunsthal Charlottenborgu (Kopenhagen, Danska), nadaljujem svoje delo z veliko bolj ženstveno, subtilno energijo. Severne svetlobe so mi pustile sen. Lepoto, poetiko in zapeljivost. Pri načrtovanju in izvedbi likovnih projektov celostno prepletam vse svoje umetniške strasti in znanja. Različne ustvarjalne tehnike demokratično sodelujejo pri moji likovni izpovedi. Za moje delo je značilna visoka mera poetičnosti in estetiziranosti. V svojih delih stremim k neomadeževanosti, svetlobi in ljubečnosti. (julij 2011) Translation agency SiLink [email protected] www.silink.si |
Catherina Zavodnik
MAÎTRE ÈS ARTS, MA / Painter, Printmaker at WWW.CATHERINA1.COM Email: [email protected] M: +386-40-873-675 Love Sonnet 148 by Shakespeare
O ME! what eyes hath love put in my head, Which have no correspondence with true sight: Or if they have, where is my judgment fled That censures falsely what they see aright? If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, What means the world to say it is not so? If it be not, then love doth well denote Loves eye is not so true as all mens: No, How can it? O how can loves eye be true, That is so vexd with watching and with tears? No marvel then though I mistake my view: The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. O cunning Love! with tears thou keepst me blind, Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find! .................... foto: Gregor Kerle, november 2011 Northern lights left me a dream. Beauty, poetics and seduction. |