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Acrylic on canvas
140 x 225 cm
2020
wooden frame @werner_murrer_rahmen
Excerpt out of a conversation with Birgit Sonna
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Birgit Sonna: How did the phenomenal Schaumgeborene – the Botticelli Venus born of sea spume – in your latest pictures come about? Judging by the eye-catcher figure, one might think that you are a great fan of Botticelli.
Janina Roider: Not really! It is true that quotations from the art history canon repeatedly crop up in my pictures, but at the same time motifs from my personal day-to-day world crop up as well. What emerges is a mixture from a great variety of fields, high and low. Essentially, I am just using this Venus as a template. Botticelli’s Venus is a genuine celebrity in the art world – it has acquired such prominence that even every philistine recognizes it.
Botticelli’s Venus per se has no background thematic significance for me: my concern rather is to endow the weighty heritage of art history with a little bit of levity.
B.S.:
Nevertheless, the iconic quality of the Venus pudica cannot be completely swept aside. Reading
her against the grain in feminist terms, she does exude something like female self-assurance and
command.
J.R.: Admittedly, virtually all of my pictures contain variants on a self-portrait. When I began working on the first pictures in the new series, I was playing with the idea that one could have seven lives, as cats are proverbially said to have. Connected with this for me is an idealized conception of life. […]
In addition, over the social media such as Instagram one gets shown how certain people master everything to perfection up to an including their free time. […]
translated by Richard Humphrey
#art #painting #janinaroider #digitalart #landscape #venus #beachlife #utopia #life #leben #artgaööery #exhibition #contemporaryart
![beach_landscape.psd
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 225 cm
2020
wooden frame @werner_murrer_rahmen
Excerpt out of a conversation with Birgit Sonna
Make it newer!
Birgit Sonna: How did the phenomenal Schaumgeborene – the Botticelli Venus born of sea spume – in your latest pictures come about? Judging by the eye-catcher figure, one might think that you are a great fan of Botticelli.
Janina Roider: Not really! It is true that quotations from the art history canon repeatedly crop up in my pictures, but at the same time motifs from my personal day-to-day world crop up as well. What emerges is a mixture from a great variety of fields, high and low. Essentially, I am just using this Venus as a template. Botticelli’s Venus is a genuine celebrity in the art world – it has acquired such prominence that even every philistine recognizes it.
Botticelli’s Venus per se has no background thematic significance for me: my concern rather is to endow the weighty heritage of art history with a little bit of levity.
B.S.:
Nevertheless, the iconic quality of the Venus pudica cannot be completely swept aside. Reading
her against the grain in feminist terms, she does exude something like female self-assurance and
command.
J.R.: Admittedly, virtually all of my pictures contain variants on a self-portrait. When I began working on the first pictures in the new series, I was playing with the idea that one could have seven lives, as cats are proverbially said to have. Connected with this for me is an idealized conception of life. […]
In addition, over the social media such as Instagram one gets shown how certain people master everything to perfection up to an including their free time. […]
translated by Richard Humphrey
#art #painting #janinaroider #digitalart #landscape #venus #beachlife #utopia #life #leben #artgaööery #exhibition #contemporaryart](https://www.janinaroider.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
