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The
prominent particularities of the young Macedonian engraver
Slavica Janešlieva (1973) are the result of her intelligent
and fantastic relation, but at the same time nostalgic towards
her "existential milieu". It includes her domestic
circle but also important and loved people from the past that
continue being a basic element in her today's life. There
are even the impulses coming from her "origin" to
which, Janešlieva, refers in the emotional semantic key:
she realizes their sharp synthesis through the use of models
of the present artistic praxis in the shape of complex installations
in which graphics and video recording get together with suggestive
objects, with natural manifestations and sounds. But Janešlieva
knows - as in the graphic works shown - how to concentrate
on the graphic expression apparently non-narrative: this refined
"new informal" owes its minutely realized "non-talking"
manufacture to the inventive use of the bark of wood.
Through this elitist and introvert process echoes the relation
of Slavica Janešlieva with the sacral spheres ("The
Wooden Angel"), with the metaphorical expressions of
her concept of Nature ('The wood", "The Forest",
"Core"); all that is conveyed through a matched
technique (bas-relief on wood, dry point, inlay, embossed
stamp) as result of the high professional and technical culture.
Boris
Petkovski (from catalogue "Matrix" - Trieste Contemporanea,
1999)
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