BLACK IN BLACK,
collage on hardboard, 29 x 40 cm, 2012
collage on hardboard, 29 x 40 cm, 2012
"Black in Black" is a collage in which I usedIndian ink and a variety of black pieces cut from old sketches. Isought an interaction between these different shades of black (noblack is like another black!) and the thermal values they can reachwhen put in an almost systemic mixture. As can be seen, thecomposition is figurative, but the characters loose themselvesgradually, they melt into this state of black like in a muted swarmof acids.
mixed technique on canvas, 123 x 145 cm, 2009
Product of a process of integration into the landscape, the artwork"Cosmos" was realised in several stages of physicaltransformation. For now, I will mention only the first of them, therest another time maybe: I initially put a big raw canvas under thevine in my courtyard and I made a gesturaldrawing following the way inwhich the leaves shadows were comingdown on the canvas, then I gathered thecanvas in circles of metal wire andI let it hang for a while in the yard. Why "Cosmos"?Because the physical makingprocess of the work ressembled somehow-- keeping the proportions ofthe interpretation-- to the route leading to the creation of thecosmos. More recently, this work hasreceived a bookish existence. In whatsense? "Cosmos" appears in the novel atwhich Liviu, my husband, is currently writing,"Bird Bloodon Clothes".
Here is the excerpt: "The term<<vivisection>> was indeed the right word, becauseeverything looked like a knife live dissection of the cosmic space bythe hand of a mad demiurge, a cosmic setting split as an animalcarcas and held on walls in torn folds. A fresco, an expressionistfresco. She had represented the star clusters through a germinatingchaos of drops and disunited stripes, white, blue, green and gray,freed nervously with the brush and stretched and deeply scratchedwith the knife tip. Scuffling one with the other, describing explodedcurves and hot cuts. A map, a destroyed cosmic map. The acute feelingthey were having before that scene was that every detail was home toa battle which gave right under their eyes: << As in thesulfuric acid's composition. And yet, there's no violence at all. >>,remarks Ulryk. "
Here is the excerpt: "The term<<vivisection>> was indeed the right word, becauseeverything looked like a knife live dissection of the cosmic space bythe hand of a mad demiurge, a cosmic setting split as an animalcarcas and held on walls in torn folds. A fresco, an expressionistfresco. She had represented the star clusters through a germinatingchaos of drops and disunited stripes, white, blue, green and gray,freed nervously with the brush and stretched and deeply scratchedwith the knife tip. Scuffling one with the other, describing explodedcurves and hot cuts. A map, a destroyed cosmic map. The acute feelingthey were having before that scene was that every detail was home toa battle which gave right under their eyes: << As in thesulfuric acid's composition. And yet, there's no violence at all. >>,remarks Ulryk. "
