“As a tailor, I wrap my canvas around you to make you come to be the artwork that you would like to narrate. Your previous, your perceptions and your inner thoughts are remodeled as the warp and weft of a special tale which has lastly been unveiled. Yours.”
By Rise Art | 24 Aug 2022
Andrea Solaja has lately joined Increase Art, bringing her assorted portfolio of abstract paintings and sculptures to the platform. Andrea creates worlds and figures, actively playing with the distinction of gentle and dark, and tells tales making use of designs in her individual private way to express her emotions and as a resource of reduction to escape from the shadows of her Serbian childhood when the nation was bombed.
Andrea Solaja taking Orestes, what have you completed? off the wall when it can be bought (@andrea_solaja)
How would you explain your inventive style?
At the age of 10, I’ve experienced a awful life expertise: my place was bombed.
My sole supply of relief to escape from the horrors of individuals days was imagining worlds and making stories inside of the light-weight of the only candle I had. The shadows projected on the partitions would convert into the styles of the at any time altering figures of my imagination, I can see my fingers weaving evanescent particulars which blended with the condensation and the chilly. That light-weight shone on an outer space which was way too little for a baby. I experienced to create a person to develop into inside, immense.
I hold my childhood and its goals within that small flame. I sealed the darkness I had within with the wax and with the wick I tied the reminiscences of a everyday living which was not heading to be mine any more.
My art unfolds all around the narration of that light. My paintings are symbionts of the match of contrasting light-weight and dark which narrate with no revealing, which drain my interior feelings on the canvas avoiding the designs from turning into obstacles.
Andromeda I, 2022, by Andrea Solaja
What messages or themes do you want to talk with your operate?
I paint the tales that strike my chords, with which I perceive a bond.
As a tailor, I wrap my canvas around you to make you come to be the art that you would like to narrate. Your previous, your perceptions and your thoughts are remodeled as the warp and weft of a exclusive story which has at last been unveiled. Yours.
Andrea adding the remaining touches to Alchemy (@andrea_solaja)
How has your exercise advanced more than the many years? Have you generally worked in an summary model?
Good dilemma.
To be truthful, I’ve hardly ever imagined about it.
In terms of system, I’m not ready to say greater or worst, let us say that I have discovered my mark, my impact. Is not this what each individual artist aspires to?
My adore for Figurative style hasn’t adjust, but my sight definitely has and that’s why lots of individuals define my artwork, Abstract.
‘’Nearsightedness’’ is my approach, but the type is continue to Figurative.
Afrodite, 2022, by Andrea Solaja
What is an normal working day like in your studio?
Oh, you would be so bored paying out time with me in the studio!
I am so immersed in investigation and in my thoughts that I uncover it really hard to be present in the terrestrial planet. I’m pretty slow in output of my artwork and the cause of this slowness is owing to a large amount of exploration behind each artwork: it starts off from the tale I want to explain to and how I want it to be advised the preference of the material that greatest suits the tale several hours of sketching… As soon as I have the very clear plan in my head of the closing consequence, very well which is the moment I commence with the output.
Andrea sitting down in her ‘second home’, Art Place (@andrea_solaja)
What/Who are your key influences?
Who?
I have generally experienced a enthusiasm for artists who have gone towards the tide, for the reason that you need to think in opposition to the tide if you want to have actually innovative concepts. Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy, Lucio Fontana… to title a few. Persons ordinarily examine my will work with Caravaggio’s simply because of the darkness and I’m great with that if we want to summarise briefly my art.
But, the truth is distinctive. I’m obsessed with the tales guiding each individual Artist and their time, the modern society they lived in, but generally the explanation which pushed them to make that sort of art, their psychology, their soul, their feelings and doubts…
What?
I’m a substantial supporter of Greek mythology, omnipresent in my do the job.
Afrodizie, 2022, by Andrea Solaja
Who are some Rise Artwork artists with operate you happen to be experiencing at the moment?
In fact a large amount of them, these types of as Iain Andrews, Michele Fletcher, but Johanna Bath’s operates are absolutely my favorite. Her art reminds me of Gerhard Richter’s blurry series, but enriched with a female contact.
Are you at this time operating on any enjoyable new projects?
My past undertaking was ‘’Semi di Luce’’ for ‘’LUCE’’ Artwork Exhibition in Palermo and it was these an astounding encounter. September is close to the corner with a good deal of exciting initiatives that I just cannot wait to share with you! But now, I want some relaxation!
Semi di luce, 2022, by Andrea Solaja