LUISA
Portraits’ are about identity,that fluid state which people strive to define in themselves and then firmly fix into their lives. But identity isn’t so fixed and one-dimensional. As an aspect of personal character, it is naturally quite abstract, evolving and multi-faceted. It is alsosomething that could be considered almost spiritual, because it’s the outer expression of many inner struggles. From a distance, we categorize according to the age of the body, how it is dressed, undressed, veiled, uniformed, contorted or sculpted. But these are just outer facades because it is the face that holds all the clues we need and the apertures to inner identity are through the eyes. It’s no accident that the ancients also considered them to be the “windows opening to our soul”. Alea P?nar Du Pre’s portraits’ search for clues to the true identities of her subjects through their outer facial expressions. This digital painting is a part of my SPACE/TIME series, in which I question the strange, illusory nature of matter itself.
As an Austrian/Turkish Painter, born in 1972 in Vienna, Alea Pinar Du Pre has been influenced deeply by the artist of Künstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette. As a highly talented autodidact she started painting early on. In 2008 she developed her current technique in which she mixes digital art with ‘the real world’.
Ale Pinar Du Pre about her work: ‘My aim is to help administer a small dose of inner perceptiveness! Looking into and beyond the canvas, I hope we will find new ways to narrate what we see. Each piece has its own narrative, designed to stimulate the audience to reflect on the blurred playground that bridges the visible and invisible, reality and perception. ‘What is reality?’ is the central theme across the series and in each painting we glimpse a fraction of it, before it escapes.’
Portraits’ are about identity,that fluid state which people strive to define in themselves and then firmly fix into their lives. But identity isn’t so fixed and one-dimensional. As an aspect of personal character, it is naturally quite abstract, evolving and multi-faceted. It is alsosomething that could be considered almost spiritual, because it’s the outer expression of many inner struggles. From a distance, we categorize according to the age of the body, how it is dressed, undressed, veiled, uniformed, contorted or sculpted. But these are just outer facades because it is the face that holds all the clues we need and the apertures to inner identity are through the eyes. It’s no accident that the ancients also considered them to be the “windows opening to our soul”. Alea P?nar Du Pre’s portraits’ search for clues to the true identities of her subjects through their outer facial expressions. This digital painting is a part of my SPACE/TIME series, in which I question the strange, illusory nature of matter itself.
As an Austrian/Turkish Painter, born in 1972 in Vienna, Alea Pinar Du Pre has been influenced deeply by the artist of Künstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette. As a highly talented autodidact she started painting early on. In 2008 she developed her current technique in which she mixes digital art with ‘the real world’.
Ale Pinar Du Pre about her work: ‘My aim is to help administer a small dose of inner perceptiveness! Looking into and beyond the canvas, I hope we will find new ways to narrate what we see. Each piece has its own narrative, designed to stimulate the audience to reflect on the blurred playground that bridges the visible and invisible, reality and perception. ‘What is reality?’ is the central theme across the series and in each painting we glimpse a fraction of it, before it escapes.’