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05.05.17
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Ana Pusica – Emerging Artist of the Week

Ana Pusica. Links: Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017. Mitte: Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180 x140 cm, 2017_ Rechts_ Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017
Ana Pusica. Links: Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017. Mitte: Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180 x140 cm, 2017_ Rechts_ Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017
Ana Pusica. Links_ Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017_ Rechts_ Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017
Ana Pusica. Links_ Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017_ Rechts_ Square and Circle, Acryl auf Leinwand,180x140cm, 2017
Ana Pusica 'Squares and circles' acrylics on canvas 180 x 140 cm, 2016
Ana Pusica 'Squares and circles' acrylics on canvas 180 x 140 cm, 2016

This week’s Emerging Artist is Ana Pusica.

 

Ana_Pusica_PortraitbildWhat are you working on right now?

Right now, I’m pretty committed to a series of paintings that is titled SQUARE AND CIRCLE. The basic idea is to develop with the colors a materiality and dynamic, which allow the viewer to decide what is the story behind the figure picture. Sometimes, the painting’s surfaces are heavily worked, sometimes they are expressively fluid or made of extravagant drips of paint. They are non-abstract, but not strictly figurative either. Though, representing no identifiable portraits, the pictures evoke associations: red-hot magma, cheeky pinks and oranges or cloudy color spectrums. As a result, the artworks exude an intense lightness and are allowing multiple layers of potential meanings.

My intense focus on colors is also reflected within the titles. In fact, every painting is named after a particular color tone that it is made of. As a result, there are titles such as: New Sneakers, Boston University, Tickle me Pink, Lobster Lips or Monkey Breath. Believe it or not, these are all official color names. I like the idea of drawing the attention of the observers away from the question “What do I see on the picture?”.

Concerning my public presentations, I am having right now a solo exhibition at the gallery Stoerpunkt in Munich until the end of May. After that a group exhibition “arkadenale. go to paradise” in the gallery Landeshauptstadt München Kunstarkaden in mid-June. And at the beginning of September there is another solo exhibition in the Bürgerhaus Unterföhring. For that one I am preparing a “color Installation”.

What is your art about?

In my work, the very action of painting is fundamental, and it is the moment when my physical impulses and visual imagination come together on the canvas. What matters most to me is the creative act itself.
My paintings are the expression of my subjectivity. They reflect the poetry of my inner world with its mixture of memories, ideas and quotations from my favorite authors. The gestures are just as important as the subject, as they reveal with the impulses and movements the embodiment of my thoughts. I am someone who lives in my own bubble. Although it seems to be very quiet, only there I can truly express myself.
My art is a physical act, direct, intuitive and in motion. There is a lot of energy in the pictures, that’s why I like to work on large formats. There I can put this concentrated force into the frame. I try to create a new and interesting surface from repeating one motive several times by using a lot of different movements, gestures and randomness. From the mixture of surfaces and layers, something like a figurative image emerges at the end.

Do you find your immediate surrounding inspirational?

Lacking of inspiration is often just a very good excuse to stay in bed, not having to deal with the unknown or an inability to encounter and overcome an obstacle. If something is inspiring or not is for me just a question of my momentarily state of mind. Very often completely uninspiring surroundings lead me to the best solutions. But without the interchange of ideas with people that I respect and appreciate, I could not be so productive, that’s for sure. I cannot say that there are many of them in my environment.

Which artists or what kind of art has the greatest impact on your work?

Howard Hodgkin, Peter Krauskopf, Marlene Dumas, Cy Twombly.

How does the internet influence your way of working as an artist?

What we all know for sure is that the job of an artist is not only being in the studio and creating a picture. Actually, so many things need to be taken care of outside of the studio. With new communication technologies and the emergence of Instagram, artists can in a very short time, without intermediaries, reach people and present their work – at least digitally. This makes us more independent than before. I still have not made a clear decision if I find that good or bad. I’m just afraid of becoming very annoyed by the crowd of hobby artists who have overbooked the internet.

 

 

See more of her work at Ana Pusica

 

09.12.16
Interviews
Artists

Rosanna Graf – Emerging Artist of the Week

Laura Posdziech

Our Emerging Artist of the Week is videoartist Rosanna Graf:

 

How do you describe your art to somebody who has never seen one of your work?

I mainly work with video, with emphasis on fictional characters which I create and for who I write dialogues for. I’m interested in human existence, analyzing our relationship with the self and our surroundings, focusing on everyday role play. I take great interest in mythological narratives and rituals which I often draw from, be it as base for a character, as visual pattern or as the starting point for new work

 

What did University and your professors give to you?

Probably the most important thing is meeting new people and being introduced to new mindsets and methods. In the end art academy feels like a voyage of self-discovery, where you have to find out what works for you on your own and you only receive something if you really strive for it. So I guess it’s a good life lesson in general.

 

What are you currently working on?

Currently I’m thinking about ways to transfer my scenic/text work to stage, working with live performance and play readings. There’s a collaboration planned with a befriended theatre director, with who I’ll be working on a play in which we will combine live acting and videoperformance on the theatre stage.

 

Bild zeigt 1 Person , im Freien und Natur
»I, Protozoan« (2014), video, Full HD (digital), 11:00 min
Bild zeigt Himmel, Wolken, Ozean, im Freien und Wasser
»Primal Centered She« (2016), video, Full HD (digital), 05:00 min

 

 

 

 

Bild zeigt 1 Person
»Cargo« (2013), video, Full HD (digital), 06:00 min
 
Click here to discover more about Rosanna Graf

22.09.16
Interviews

Richard Carr – Emerging Artist of the Week

Laura Posdziech

This week’s Emerging Artist is Richard Carr

 

The Irish artist explores with experience art and plays with the medium. We had the chance to talk to him.

Portrait

How do you describe your art to somebody who has never seen one of your works?
This for me is always difficult as most of my work requires people to be present within the gallery space for it to be fully experienced. However I usually describe my practice by saying I work primarily with sound with an interest in its position within a visual art context and when exhibited, the work usually takes various forms of installation with elements of participation and listening.

Where did you study?
I graduated in 2013 from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.

What did University and your professors give to you?
Studying at University was a great experience for me and I really enjoyed meeting new people and building a network of new friends. On my degree I had fantastic lecturers who held the view that good knowledge of art history was important. This gave me great theoretical and conceptual underpinnings to help frame my own practice and I feel this was extremely beneficial to me in the early stages. However within a visual art context I was exposed to very little history in relation to the use of sound, or if I was, it was usually spoken about as an add-on/supplement to a visual art practice or artwork. As I felt working with sound was a central aspect to my own practice I spent the year between my Degree and my Masters experimenting with the potentials of working with sound and expanding my knowledge into the history of music, sound-making, sound art and listening as a critical practice.

What are you currently working on?
I currently have a number of different projects on the go. I am preparing for an upcoming show as part of the Irish, Sound, Science and Technology Festival in Derry later this year.

What are your three artists to watch?
T Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Zimoun and Douglas Henderson.

What will your artist career look like in five years?
I would like to see my career as an artist developing into a much more sustainable practice over the next five years. This could happen in various ways I suppose, through some lifestyle changes, taking different approaches to how I develop work, gallery representation etc. Alongside this, in five years, I hope that I am still as excited and motivated about the work I make and hope to continue being in a positive environment to continue making the best possible work that I can. There is so much more I would like to make, places I would like to see/hear and people I would like to meet.

Residual Error, Installation View, SOMA Contemporary Gallery, 2015

Returning Solid, Installation View, SOMA Contemporary Gallery, 2015

REpublic, Installation View, 2016

 

 

 

 

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