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Untitled

2010
Materials: graphite, pencil on paper
5 см x 145 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 021209
1 350 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

Painting, graphics, mixed technique

The work from the series Penumbra

The word penumbra is often rendered "half-light." The Latin origin paene umbra literally means "almost shadow." In between the shadow and the light there is a zone through which we may see what is in the penumbra, but we see it with this darkened hue, and it is problematic to say weather it is illuminated or not. In "Penumbra" series the light is radiated on to what is but a partially illuminated landscape. Through this light, emotions and thoughts within the duality of darkness and brightness are visually translated. The truth exists in the "in-between" area, the penumbra.

Danja Akulin was born in Leningrad in a painter's family. 20 years ago he interrupted his studies at the Rerikh School and, having passed a serious competition, found himself on Professor Georg Baselitz's course at the Berlin University of the Arts. Almost all publications devoted to the author mention his distinguished mentors - Georg Baselitz and Daniel Richter. However, the creative influence on Danja Akulin was rather cardinally different system of education, thanks to soviet drawing classes.

Danja Akulin's paintings are an apology of drawing as an independent artistic statement. The author deliberately limits himself in means. “A line drawn with a pencil is more interesting to me than a line drawn with a brush or a line created on the border of two color surfaces. It can convey much more information."