Etchings of Venice

"The artist experienced Venice as the fairy-tale enactment of her dreams, removed into a world of loneliness, shrouded in lace with closed squares and concealed gardens; but she also included the gallery resence of contemporary art from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection there, as well as the equestrian statue of Marino Marini, and even the outline of the famous late art dealer, thus confronting antiquity and historical contemporaneity; but more than that, she graphically impressed the sound of silence into all of this. She has reduced the portioned luxury of the ornate façades into geometric austerity and has aesthetically glorified the empty squares and gardens as scenes of her longing, which are most often lived out in metaphysically festive cities and lulls, where the pointed bell towers force their way skywards and the portals of churches open up into eternity."

Text by Milček Komelj for the exhibition catalogue "Original Printmaking"