Tanja. Fairy tales.
Before I began writing this text, I fixed myself a warm cup of cocoa. That’s a perfect starting point for writing about Tanja’s works on the subject of Fairy tales.
These little frozen stills of well known stories I would describe – without a shred of doubt - as new classics. Her expression bears exactly what artists before her gave us, artists whose work we see as images engraved into our DNA. Such illustrators possess sincere love for illustration, they are aware of the work produced by artists before them and have the knowledge of the classic graphic techniques. They also think within the current illustration trends and have the skill to transfer the impressions of what they read into distinctive images onto which an observer can easily import his own interpretation.
The rich and fine sanded grey embellishing these works is the base for well known characters that often stare quite seriously at us. These portraits, cut out and placed on a clear surface, become something like medallions, precious fragile plants from a herbarium or a carefully kept documentation from a journal; palpable evidence that the stories actually happened. Tanja’s representation of fairytales is neither sweet nor fancy, it is boldly personal and, like her sense of humor, unique and twisted with a justified dose of bizarre.
Jana Oršolić
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text from the catalogue
~ Invitation ~
~ the exhibition catalogue ~
> Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood, than in the truth that is taught by life. <
Schiller
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