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Studio d'Arte Cannaviello
Via Stoppani 15, 20129 Milano
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Italy
Tel.++39 02 20240428
Fax++39 02 20244645
Hours: Tue.-Sat. 10:30am/7:30pm
Contact: Enzo Cannaviello
E-mail: cannaviello@interfree.it
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Maja Vukoje
For her first Italian solo show, Maja Vukoje is exhibiting fifteen canvases of varying sizes that depict dolls in passive, abandoned, “lifeless” poses. Her works do not only explore the innate passivity of the subject, however—something so evident that it could be taken as read. Vukoje’s images acquire a psychological quality that blurs the distinction between Man and Doll; the toys, with their unsettling, humanoid expressions, could almost be mistaken for children. The wide-open eyes that stare out into a world they cannot enter seem to penetrate the canvas and draw the viewer into an exchange of glances that is at times tender, at others cold. The particular nature of Vukoje’s technique—her watercolor-like sensibility in handling paint, her continual search for a harmonious balance of colors—intensifies the impact of the images, blurring the little bodies of the dolls and calling attention to their faces instead. Viewers are thrown into a whirlpool of memories, forced to reconsider things that they have known for many years, things that are part of everyday life. The artist seems to reflect her deepest Self, the very essence of human sensitivity, in the dolls she depicts. A former student of Maria Lassnig, Maja Vukoje is now affirmed as one of the main names in European figurative painting—a fact that can be confirmed by the numerous invitations she has received to show in international painting exhibitions. To mark the occasion of her first Italian solo shows, at the Studio d'Arte Cannaviello and Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, a book about her work, edited by Gianni Romano, has been published by Gabrius.
Maja Vukoje was born in Dusseldorf in 1969. She currently lives and works in Vienna. Her main group exhibitions include: Premio del Golfo at the European Biennale of Visual Arts (2000) in La Spezia and the 51st Premio Michetti in Francavilla, curated by Gianni Romano. Her solo shows include: Strasburg Castle, Austria; MAJANA, Kunsthalle Exnergasse-WUK, Vienna; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; Oesterreichisches Kulturinstitut, Warsaw.
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