Danica Ondrejovic: Over the line. The poetic language of the intellectual introspection

The Gallery Pow Alessandro Icard September 21 will inaugurate the exhibition of the artist Danica Ondrejovic.
Danica was born March 24, 1976, in Bratislava, lives and works in Milan. In 2002 he moved to Italy and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. During the semester a student becomes the master Nino Mustica and began his career as an artist by participating in various group exhibitions, where found the attention of well-known critics who make her continue her work. He has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Milan and Turin between personal, Bratislava and Geneva. An artist, Danica, who experiences very much and is not limited to painting or sculpture. Interesting stop-motion movies where small plasticine men live different adventures leaving the viewer thinking never dull. In these videos you can see a subtle inspiration of Jan Švankmajer, Czech surrealist records.
A line is very dry and minimal salient feature of the work of Danica Ondrejovic. An artist very contemporary, but at the time it receives a slight breath of the past, influenced by the great artists of the old school as a widow. His style goes beyond the informal, research is the essentiality of form, in the immediacy of the line, an expressive minimalism is characterized by a strong punch and introspection.
In his works, Danica uses different materials, including occasional with which it can develop a very elegant poetic language characterized by a current and universal use. A language that can communicate at all, so as to stimulate the other person intellectually and personally, making him arise in certain moods. The dialogue established between the viewer and the work is the keystone of his poetry, which is essential to fully understand the work of this artist very introspective.
In September Danica will present its Passive Sculptures, works entirely with newspaper. The printed paper for the artist is the link between what happens in the world and man. A sort of informer to which society relates with great passivity and laziness. The indifference to what is happening, and a superficial reading that has nothing reflective. It is precisely this lack of interest and reflection that leads to a sterile passivity, the mind becomes a mere container of information which unfortunately does not come from any order or intellectual or creative. The artist manages to turn this liability into something constructive and intellectually higher. From careful and meticulous observer who is able to be active in front of billions of information. The artist and art since ancient times speaks through symbols, key to encode messages that express the art works and render comprehensible to his viewers. Not only sculptures, but also paintings in this exhibition. In the paintings Danica also uses small fragments of newspapers mixed color and lines that seem to resemble intense doodles. In these works the artist rapresents the worlds to himself, each with its own characteristics. The only common feature is a color that recalls the colorful architecture, the places where the artist lived. Old houses with plaster consumed in typical Italian villages where Danica is very fond of her. One thing to which she is very fascinated because of the past that has lived; she herself tells us: '' (..) in my hometown of Bratislava I've never experienced these visual experiences. The Social realism has killed everything that was old and in place of this has replaced housing made ??of concrete panels. I still remember the feelings that I experienced in my childhood in the summer, when heat was stifling, and without the sea or a lake to cool off played between the panels. Our imagination was flying really far away and not being able to get out to get to know other realities, they were inventing our own (...) ''

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