The Slide Print

The work which was awarded the first prize (Chisnau Painting Biennial), signed by Agnieszka Zawisza, could easily be included in a genre that continues to generate scores of admirers, but what makes it highly significant is the very difference to the superabundance of landscape paintings and its sense of contemporary. Its title plays on the ambiguity of the word slide, which can equally mean to move smoothly along a surface, but also a device for sliding into a swimming pool, which we can actually see in the painting. One can largely “brand” the landscape as a genre by its green colour dominant, related to meadows, forests, groves, lakes which lovers of landscape take great pleasure in. Even though the artist obeys the rule, her green is the result of an abstract dynamics of the pigment applied with a palette knife, dripped, drained, sprinkled – actions suggesting a fairly large number of elements which have an equivalent in nature without being mimetic, figuratively speaking. The entire surface of the work is in shades of green, for a reason which is directly connected to its distinctive feature: it shows a lake landscape (the lower part is the water reflection of the upper one) shaped by hazard which we could put down to flooding, heavy rainfalls or, why not, global warming and its effects. What is truly admirable is the way in which this green profusion incorporates several elements suggesting the human presence, no gone precisely as a result of the calamity the painting hints to. It may be viewed as a memento of how frail human civilization can be when confronted with omnipotent nature, ready to get hold of territories it has lost through human action, just like the dominant green of the painting. Calin Stegerean Head of the Jury

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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