Capucines Boulevard Features Artist Alina Lelijak

about the artist

Alina received a Masters Degree at the University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca (painting department). Her work has appeared in in numerous counties including Hungary (Casa Tineretului; Galeria Erlin); Art Budapest; , Venice, Italy (Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research), and the Academy of Zagreb, Croatia, Expo.

artists' statement

Why today, more than anytime, the human body configures a space of controversy: attention – on one side, as attraction and routine body – on the other side, as a thematic lacking profoundness? Why all the shops, mass-media, publicity are saturate with the image of the naked body or of the virtual nude? Why are there so many writers and artists who try to enter the subject searching there for depth, in denudation, a precious expression like seeming lost in a symbol lacking signification?

In a computer era, creating mystery is forced not only to gain new valences, but especially a totally different approach from tradition and/or currents. The human body has been reconsidered and reconstructed by art and literature, as it was restructured by science and engineering. Parts of the body are today dislocated from one man to another, the implant is a fashion appendage, and technique has become part of the human organism as a substitute necessary to functionality.

The human body became a real scarred and feudatory battlefield. The partial or total extrapolation technique of the body as subject-object succeeded in separating it, it seems definitively and irrevocably, from the Being as transcendence or bridge to transcendental, keeping only the sentence connotation of it as a subject. I find in nudity symbolism sufficiently anchoring of ones' own expression and not necessarily the certitude of a pre-established way. I am not interested in the form itself but in what the revelation might hide, the beneath as retrieval in another chromatic aspect. At the limit of the form I thus provoke the meeting of two spaces – old and new; under and above; closed and open; compact and rarefied etc. – as non-contradictory duality and searching for its completion in complementarity. 

We are the partisans of our own projections from past and / or about the future... The past comes back as the Same but always as Another Interpretation. I chose the female nudity as form purified from any intrinsic or explicit content and I tried to use its contour making abstraction of the entire arsenal of symbols more or less primate, more or less impious and / or mystic. I searched for expressing not certitudes, convictions or technical mastership, but interrogations addressed both to myself and to the looker. The pictorial space generates a tectonic or plastic order whose equivalent cannot be supplied by any achievable connection in the real space. Organizing among them, sensitive components of pictorial space organize in the same time significations adhering to them, thus the formal consistency of the pictorial world becomes the support of a coherence of ideas and values.