MAYA KULENOVIC: TECHNIQUE AND METHOD ‘Maya Kulenovic’s aesthetics present a constant dialog between spontaneity and control, creation and destruction, likeness and anonymity, presence and absence. While she does create chiaroscuro effects reminiscent of Caravaggio and Rembrandt, her technique is expressive, direct, fresh, and often surprising; it invites the viewer to participate emotionally in the work.’ Paintings …
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Bob van den BoogertConservator Museum Het Rembrandthuis MAYA KULENOVIC EN REMBRANDT’S CLAIR – OBSCUR Op 4 maart 2012 opent bij Morren Galleries in Utrecht een tentoonstelling met nieuw werk van de Canadese kunstenares Maya Kulenovic (Sarajevo 1975). Kule novic is een van de grootste schildertalenten van haar generatie en heeft inmiddels een omvangrijk oeuvre opgebouwd, …
Edward Lucie- Smith MAYA KULENOVIC: STATE OF BEING The word ‘realism’ is often very loosely used when it is applied to art, and especially when it is used in relation to painting. In the minds of many spectators, it implies something that is in some way related to photography, which has become the contemporary standard …
Anthony CollinsMAYA KULENOVIC – BIOGRAPHY AND WORK Maya Kulenovic’s artistic development, as a painter working with representational imagery, has followed a path echoing that of art history: as it has shaped its own story and seen its potentials redefined. Her inspirations range from Rembrandt to 19th century daguerreotype photography, images from damaged motion pictures, Greek …
Mark KingwellAPPEALS AND ANSWERS IN MAYA KULENOVIC’S PAINTING (excerpts) “The face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation.” —Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (1961) “It is no more possible truly to describe a landscape than it is to describe a face.” —Madison Smartt Bell, Straight Cut (1986) When I visited Maya Kulenovic’s studio …