Masks
Oda Jaune
9783954761203
136 pages
Distanz Verlag Gmbh Llc
Overview
"A nun working on a piece of embroidery, a face obscured by flowers—these
are only some of the motifs the GermanBulgarian artist
Oda Jaune (b. Sofia, 1979; lives and works in Paris) presents in her
second monograph. The new watercolors, created between 2013 and
2015, explore the idea of the "social mask" and depict characters going
through a personal transformation. The oeuvre of the young painter,
who was Jörg Immendorff’s master student at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Düsseldorf and later his wife, has drawn wide attention in
recent years. Jaune blends ideas of tenderness, childlike naïveté, and
violence in surreal and sometimes grotesque paintings. Her characteristic
stylistic device of turning the inside out reveals glimpses of
what is usually buried within us. Despite the almost visceral intensity
of the pictures, they always grow out of a beautiful and sublime
vision. An excerpt from Friedrich Nietzsche’s book "Beyond Good
and Evil" serves as an apt introduction to Jaune’s fascinating art."
