Liminal Spaces – Darja Štefančič
The solo exhibition Liminal Spaces, by the Slovenian artist Darja Štefančič, was inaugurated on the 21st of April at 5 pm, at the Galleria Il Leone-Dislivello in via Aleardo Aleardi 12 – Rome.
The event, curated by the art critic Monica Ferrarini of the Associazione M.F.eventi, with the collaboration of Alice Di Piero, had the moral patronage of the Slovenian Embassy, of the Regione Lazio, of the I Municipio Roma Centro and the associations FIDAPA BPW Italy section Ara Pacis and Donne & Società.
The exhibition is part of the events of the Rome Art Week by Night, April 21, from 7 to 10 pm.
“Darja Štefančič’s pictorial art is an expression of captivating creative instinct, behind which a poetic imaginary, rich in symbols and tales, is hidden. It’s a mental trip between unconscious and subconscious, between sensitive and transcendent, through which the artist gives life to compositions dominated by abstract forms, now soft now geometrical, that reinterpret the shapes of nature and physical reality. Each canvas is enveloped in an imaginary and fairy-like dimension where, both in the richest compositional structures as well as the most essential ones, a chromatic exacerbation is present, becoming a box for emotions. In fact, the dimension of the color is peculiar of her whole pictorial path: what strongly emerges is the use of a vivid and vibrant palette, intense and enveloping, where the powerful and sometimes bold combinations, mixed with the balance of the shapes, reveal the fascination of atemporal mental projections. Štefančič’s paintings show exuberant and astral natures, projections of visions of intimate matrix that do not correspond to a precise meaning, but are charged with surreal contents. These enchanted landscapes are built on shapes that reveal her personal interpretation of the space, through plastic shapes that mostly have an allusive and symbolic value. In this case, also the colors become part of an extremely personal narrative construct that puts the accent especially on their allusive character.”
