Cristina Cojanu
2008 RCA graduate, Cristina Cojanu's bold colour and dense markings create visuals feasts. Her work most recently featured in the massive show Kunst in der Carlshütte: Nord Art in Büdelsdorf. Intrigued by the immorality of ornaments and the violent alteration of human presence in paint, Cojanu uses decoration as an anti-descriptive device, allowing her medium to manifest itself in its entire savagery. Through extracting the Figure from the figurative, her images probe femininity and gender concepts. As she recalls the luminosity of Byzantine painting; the infinity of the Islamic pattern; and the extravagance of the Orient, the creation of these embellished jewels has taken on a performative quality. The work becomes the transfer of Cojanu's bodily trace, the paint marks her bodily inscription.
Slowly, but Surely
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Painting
100cm x 100cm
A bowed head removes the focus from identity and frees the figure to function as a platform for the 'feast for the eyes' it supports. The submissive pose suspends the image between connotations of physical violence and tactile attraction.
£1,600
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