Andrea Solaja has not too long ago joined Increase Artwork, bringing her numerous portfolio of summary paintings and sculptures to the platform. Andrea creates worlds and figures, playing with the contrast of light-weight and dim, and tells tales working with styles in her possess own way to convey her emotions and as a supply of relief to escape from the shadows of her Serbian childhood when the state was bombed.
Andrea Solaja taking Orestes, what have you accomplished? off the wall when it is really sold (@andrea_solaja)
How would you describe your creative design and style?
At the age of 10, I’ve had a terrible lifetime knowledge: my place was bombed.
My sole supply of aid to escape from the horrors of those days was imagining worlds and developing stories inside of the gentle of the only candle I experienced. The shadows projected on the walls would turn into the designs of the ever altering people of my creativity, I can see my fingers weaving evanescent facts which blended with the condensation and the cold. That mild shone on an outer area which was far too little for a boy or girl. I experienced to build one particular to grow to be interior, huge.
I hold my childhood and its dreams inside that little flame. I sealed the darkness I had within with the wax and with the wick I tied the recollections of a existence which was not heading to be mine any longer.
My art unfolds close to the narration of that mild. My paintings are symbionts of the match of contrasting mild and dim which narrate with out revealing, which drain my inner thoughts on the canvas preventing the designs from starting to be hurdles.
Andromeda I, 2022, oil paint on canvas, 120 x 80cm
What messages or themes do you want to communicate with your operate?
I paint the stories that strike my chords, with which I perceive a bond.
As a tailor, I wrap my canvas close to you to make you develop into the art that you want to narrate. Your previous, your perceptions and your feelings are transformed as the warp and weft of a special story which has at last been unveiled. Yours.
Andrea including the closing touches to Alchemy (@andrea_solaja)
How has your exercise evolved about the several years? Have you often labored in an summary fashion?
Wonderful problem.
To be truthful, I have never ever imagined about it.
In phrases of procedure, I’m not in a position to say improved or worst, let’s say that I have uncovered my mark, my effect. Isn’t this what just about every artist aspires to?
My really like for Figurative model hasn’t modify, but my sight surely has and which is why a lot of men and women define my art, Summary.
‘’Nearsightedness’’ is my system, but the design is however Figurative.
Afrodite, 2022, oil on canvas, 90 x 65cm
What’s an common 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 difficult to be current in the terrestrial globe. I’m incredibly sluggish in creation of my art and the rationale of this slowness is owing to a ton of investigation powering every artwork: it starts from the tale I want to tell and how I want it to be instructed the preference of the material that ideal suits the story hrs of sketching… After I have the crystal clear concept in my head of the remaining final result, effectively that’s the minute I start out with the generation.
Andrea sitting in her ‘second home’, Art House (@andrea_solaja)
What/Who are your crucial influences?
Who?
I have often experienced a passion for artists who have gone from the tide, due to the fact you require to assume from the tide if you want to have actually impressive strategies. Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy, Lucio Fontana… to identify a few. Persons ordinarily look at my works with Caravaggio’s for the reason that of the darkness and I’m great with that if we want to summarise briefly my art.
But, the reality is unique. I’m obsessed with the stories behind each individual Artist and their time, the society they lived in, but mainly the cause which pushed them to make that type of artwork, their psychology, their soul, their thoughts and doubts…
What?
I’m a substantial fan of Greek mythology, omnipresent in my function.
Afrodizie, 2022, Oil on canvas, 150 x 100cm
Who are some Rise Art artists with function you are taking pleasure in at the instant?
Actually a whole lot of them, these kinds of as Iain Andrews, Michele Fletcher, but Johanna Bath’s works are definitely my favourite. Her artwork reminds me of Gerhard Richter’s blurry sequence, but enriched with a feminine touch.
Are you presently functioning on any fascinating new tasks?
My final job was ‘’Semi di Luce’’ for ‘’LUCE’’ Art Exhibition in Palermo and it was these types of an incredible working experience. September is around the corner with a whole lot of exciting initiatives that I can not wait to share with you! But now, I require some relaxation!
Semi di luce, 2022, Cirmolo wood, resin and Dorodango ball, 115 x 16 x 16cm
