Ida Kvetny
Ida Kvetny, Blaze, 2008 In Ida Kvetny’s installations, juxtaposed paintings, drawings, animations and sculptures all contribute to the same investigation of the limitations of painting. Her cut-out drawings mirror the stencils that her paintings have been spraypainted through. Only they are negations: the cut-out removes what the spraypaint adds. The figurative elements in the paintings have been cast to sculptures whose shadows are thrown onto the projection of animated drawings. The sculptures rest on a base of braided canvases. Tiles, spraypainted through stencils, become sculptural drawings as they cover floors or form walls. The paintings themselves are an explosion of vibrant colours.
Twisting and interlacing lines. Spaces that overlap. Techniques that
succeed one another. Acrylic, marker, spraypaint, water, metallic and
neon colours. Layered or side by side. Like one big chain reaction.
Elements that lead to something else. Unhierarchic processes like the
forces of nature, represented here by roots, trees and intestines. The
surreal and grotesque figures, the mix of figuration and abstraction
and the working process itself is that of the automatic drawing that
allows subconscious ideas to develop. |
