Biography: The Canadian artist Paula Bogati lives and works in Berlin and Québec. In her new monotypes, which are transferred by a mixed technique with acrylic on canvas, Bogati uses collages of photos, imprints and the structures of used sieves for the forms and motifes in her paintings. The separate application of colour to these motives divides the depictings in particular areas, that compose overlapping assemblies of thematic layers.
Bogati „utilizes sieves like brushes and paints with frames“, as she expresses herself. By the application of multiple layers and the additional use of the spatula pictorial compositions emerge in an intense moment of colouring and forming. A kind of „action collage“ one could call it, not without the prior constellation and arranging by the conception of the artist though.
The results are reflective sequences of scenes, paused by symbolic and abstract objects. This way Bogati composes non-linear stories in pictures, resembling the stream of an unfiltered consciousness. She depicts perceptions and associations, that reveal when the focus of reason looses its sharpness. The artist`s references are accordingly complex: A painting combines images of trivia as newspapers, symbolic imprints of hands, banal objects like chairs and expressive portraits of persons. These motifes join in the particular perspective of the observer, he is their common denominator.
The series „unfiltered stories“ shows themes from Berlin night life, images of women as the hunted in a libidinous game transforming into the hunter, respectively holding both aspects. Correspondingly the facets of expressions in Bogatis characters range from a superficial nonchalance to the dramatic agent of protagonists. So to speak these characters are affected affecters in the sentimental clutter of a pretendedly relaxed night life, - affecters demanding emotional responsibilty and commitment by their reaction though.
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