Maja Ruznic's Basel Solo Show: Figurative Painting Through Color and Texture
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Saša Bogojev
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A review of Maja Ruznic's first solo show at Contemporary Fine Arts in Basel, highlighting how the artist subverts typical figurative painting conventions. Rather than relying on recurring characters or motifs, Ruznic's work is unified by her distinctive color palette and dry paint handling technique, creating ambiguous, mythical scenes inhabited by undefined protagonists.
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· 2 pulledRuznic is not your typical figurative painter, but her gessoed linens are often inhabited by forms and structures that resemble scenes dominated by ambiguous protagonists.
Instead of having a cast of characters or imagery that she keeps revisiting, it's the color palette, and even more, the way of handling paint with an extra dry
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