This vibrant contemporary artwork features a striking visual composition. The dominant color is a rich, golden orange that radiates outward from the center, creating a sense of warmth and energy. Delicate white butterflies are scattered across the canvas, adding a whimsical and ethereal touch. The overall design suggests a bursting sun or a cosmic explosion, with the butterflies echoing the dynamic, explosive quality of the piece. The artist's distinctive technique, blending abstract expressionism with surreal elements, imbues the work with a captivating, dreamlike quality that invites the viewer to ponder the deeper symbolic meanings behind the imagery. ...
Veronika Pausova’s paintings are recognisable by their disembodied hands, ears and pointing fingers, which are rendered over the top of flat expanses of bright colour, casting shadows to simultaneously show their distance and proximity to the paintings, while actively listening or reaching out to grasp them. One questions the owner of the limbs; are they the artist’s, the viewer’s or a stranger’s? Even singular digits convey an expression like dextrous finger puppets. The body parts lend the pictures a certain dynamism; while the backdrops are stage-like and ever-present even though they are always boldly different, the body gestures are overlayed, in motion and dramatic.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
