Blažka Križan: A Myriad of Sequences

Blažka Križan: A Myriad of Sequences
9 August–7 September 2024
artKIT

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition A Myriad of Sequences by Blažka Križan, which will take place on Friday, 9 August 2024, at 7 p.m. in the artKIT exhibition space.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)
EXHIBITED ARTWORKS (PDF)

Blažka Križan’s art moves between the worlds of paper cutting and Op Art. Her monochrome works are designed as three-dimensional reliefs that create an aesthetic interplay of light and shadow.
With her scalpel cut, the artist opens, lifts and guides the emerging surface relief of the paper. The repetition of the cut creates optical illusions which, by association, generate organic and biomorphic forms as well as undulating, linear and circular compositional structures in motion.

The artist’s committed paper-cutting technique and the elegant plasticity of the cut capture a considered and intuitive artistic quality. In some of her works, the undulating organicity reigns in its subtlety, adding a note of a moving image reminiscent of waves and currents of water or traces of the wind as it sweeps through the lush field of grass. As you delve deeper into the works, a different perspective opens up, taking us further into the soft and undulating. Tiny raised surfaces, reminiscent of small windows or membranes, allow us a glimpse into the space below, in between and on the other side. The theme of the works emerges through the elementality of the shadow, the light, the line, the inclination of the paper, the slant of the line, the width and depth of the cut, the breathing forms or structures that expand and contract in their materiality and essence.

Biography

Blažka Križan (1990, Ptuj) obtained her BA in painting from Academy of Fine Arts (ALUO) in 2021, and completed her Master`s in painting in 2017. While studying she focused on the paper cutting technique. Križan was awarded the Prešeren Student Award for her Master`s thesis. In 2018 she received the Primavera DLUM Award from the Maribor Fine Artists Society, and two years later the DLUM Award, while in 2022 she won the Ex-tempore Piran Young Artist Prize. She has held solo exhibitions at the Layer House Gallery, DLUM Gallery. She lives and works in Ptuj.

< Blažka Križan: Meander, cut paper, acrylic, 2023 (detail); photo: Blažka Križan

Production: Association for Contemporary Art X-OP
Co-organization: ACE KIBLA and CODE BLUE Association

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