DIJANA BEKVALAC, SOLANGE KESCHMANN Festive Members Exchange this Thursday 2nd December 7.30pm

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Festive Members Exchange this Thursday 2nd December 7.30pm

 


FPS London

9:09 AM (1 hour ago)

Hi everyone, this Thursday is our final FPS members exchange of the year featuring the wonderful Solange Keshmann and Dijana Beklavac who will be sharing their work. This is also a special xmas celebration edition and will last until 9pm. 

 

Members are invited to share one thing they would like to remember or celebrate from 2021. This can be anything - it might be a piece of work / news / something you are working on currently or have learned. We will do this in the final 30 minutes of the call. Do feel free to wear something festive and raise a glass online together. 

 

Please find below more information about Dijana and Solanges work and here's the Zoom link:  

 

 FPS MEMBERS EXCHANGE: 7.30-9pm Dec 2 2021.        

       

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89544578993?pwd=Nk8yaDVkTTlyWXlTM1hvNG55VWdXUT09

 

Meeting ID: 895 4457 8993

Passcode: 430292

 

Thanks again to Alex for organising and collating the artists information and I look forward to seeing you Thursday.

 

Cheers, 

 

Gabriel

 

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DIJANA BEKVALAC

 


Dijana explores the boundaries of abstract picture making, playing with and dissecting its language, touching upon the infinite substrata of the visual within its scope.

 
Her imagery evokes cartographic landscapes and self-referential visual systems which exist in a condition of fragile order. It is about the obsessive mapping of space and the gathering of time invested in the production of an image.  She is also greatly influenced by the actions associated with handwriting, its traces and aesthetics, its ephemera, lines and the grids that guide it.
 
Her practice addresses the issue of the uprooted image, a set of visuals without obvious external reference. She accepts the impossibility of this condition, but allows her work to positively question its existence by allowing a visual event to occur without an immediate reference. Accepting this condition is a prerequisite to understanding her practice.
 
The experience of her imagery should consequently evoke a sense of recognition akin to deja-vu, a sense she herself experiences throughout the creative process.

 

 

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SOLANGE KESCHMANN




“Fantasy is perhaps the most free of our intellectual faculties, it does not take into account the feasibility or functionality of an object, it can permit itself to be incredible and impossible”.

My artistic goal is to transmit my inspiration, my fantasy and my ‘joie de vivre’.
As Alexander Calder says, "Above all, art should be fun."
However, my objects do not stop there, they question and engage in reflection, they transport the viewer into a miniature cosmos that unfolds in a small space and which, through the fragility of the construction, invites sometimes to reflect on the fragility of our world.

I capture my own dynamism and inspiration in my works as light,
movement and shape and let them communicate with the
environment, which reflects itself in them, thus creating a constant
variability.

I explore the boundaries of materials:  brass, aluminium and acrylic glass that has optic and kinetic properties as well as translucent qualities, which attract light capriciously.

I am focussing now on the creation of suspensions, ‘Abstract Hanging Sculpture’. These objects seem to escape gravity; what they lose in inert mass they gain in transparency.

But it is with a twinkle in the eye that I sometimes realise my ideas.

Solange Keschmann
www.solange-art.com

 

 

 

 

FPS London 

 

www.freepaintersandsculptors.co.uk

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