Oil on canvas 70X100X1.4
Ever thought about the moon to hang on it your luxury framed mirror? This painting of Aneta Chabibulina brings us directly in a fairy tale world where there are not only honeyed, suave atmospheres but also clouds, strong colors, witches, sex, nudity and spooky surreal landscapes. The mirror is the magic object that since its existence gives us a benchmark on ourselves, the “one” that tells us, pitiless, how we look like to the others. Here the object is framed as to underline and remark that the image pictured inside is her, the woman showing her nudity, caressing her hip, seducing the public and herself. The landscape is terrestrial but also submarine and her hair seems made of Mediterranean coral. Inside the mirror could be ideally printed the image of a woman in a certain moment of her life, and the image, despite “plastic” is not moving, is static as stopped there from the time, not moving further, like a frame of a film. Can not define the painting’s message if negative anxious either just full of unexpressed sexuality. Surely another painted scream in the silence of a dark blue night.
Aneta Chabibulina is rooted in the wild and pure Baltic land but she is a cosmopolitan, a citizen of this earth. The influence of Baltic places, at the same time terrestrial and fabulous, gloomy and relaxing, cold and mild, is clearly present in her art.
Born in 1983, under a certain Soviet influence, thus not dried... More
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