Suzana Brborović
(SI/DE)

Made in Germany, 2017
acrylic an ink on canvas, 180 x 160 cm

Tower=Power, 2016–2018
acrylic an ink on canvas, 220 x 180 cm

Three generations, 2017
acrylic and ink on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

Centralisation, 2015
acrylic and ink on canvas, 255 x 200 cm

Rebuilding the Monument, 2015
acrylic and ink on canvas, 220 x 180 cm

Idea of the Ideal, 2015
acrylic and ink on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

My artistic practice takes architecture as the main subject to recreate and rethink spaces built around us. Often very concentrated, my paintings explore the term saturation to its highest. Layering the realities of our surrounding, I want to create an outlook on the themes dealing with architecture and ideas about it, showing the past and present problems in evolving urbanism and how architecture defines our personal space. My artistic process takes me through researching of neglected, decayed and controversial buildings and what impact do they have on me and my setting.

I am interested in how a painting can reflect a disorder or a dystopic view with emphasises on bending perspectives and settling in in pre-designed grids of our everyday life. The key elements in my work are dealing with transparency and intertwinement of objects with a feeling of lightness and flotation. Geometrical and linear expressions combined with organic under-layering explore the world of rules, utopias and great ideas that present themselves today as practices needing re-evaluation and critical observance.

The portrayed buildings and objects are all part of my research on historically important development of the urbanism and architecture. Whether the topic is dealing with ideal cities, modernism, former industrial facilities or surveillance and defence architecture (such as bunkers from WW2) they all create a discomfort in thinking about them. My intention is to bring this discomfort directly to the viewer by creating paintings, which are expanding and overrunning the classical meaning of perspective and are rather employing the world as I see it: confused and concrete.

The carefully chosen colour palette for each series demonstrates the overall feeling of the works and can be intentionally disorientating to the viewer. The deconstruction and fragmentation of objects (influenced by avant-garde of 20th century) are approaches I undertake to provide a visual abundance of shapes and structures.

Suzana Brborović (b. 1988, Slovenia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana in 2013. In 2011, she received the first Essl Art Award in Slovenia. Among her other achievements, she received the ALUO Special Artistic Achievements Award in 2010 and the Prešeren Award for Students in 2012. Between 2014 and 2016, she attended postgraduate studies in painting (Meisterschüler) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. She is a recipient of the 2019 Rihard Jakopič Honorary Mention. She lives and works in Leipzig.

“Ideals”:
https://suzanabrborovic.eu/works/ideals/?nobn

“Flaks”:
https://suzanabrborovic.eu/works/flaks/