CRITIQUES
Giusy Uljanic, between nostalgia and imaginary
An accomplished art, always in evolution, longing for freedom in a vigorous painting
The classical evocation of the human character in the paintings of Giusy Uljanic brings us to the magnificence of “Arte Bella”, to the everlasting tradition of every art lover ‘s historical awareness. He is sometimes fascinated by chromatism and discordances of the 20th century painting, but keeps intact in his deepest feelings the emotion of the naturalistic form, idealized or restored in a spontaneous realism. Giusy often indulges on oriental inspired characters, typologies of imaginary, rather than portraits of ordinary life people, even if the features and ornaments are reminding circumstances and situations of this kind of life. Through the classical portrait in the distant past and with the help of the grace of characters of a distant cultural world in the space, Giusy lives again and brings to life the charm of a reality that belongs to the lands of fantasy, memory and dream. So the artist can regain and give back everything that doesn’t belong to her background. The painting technique is precise and ripe in experience, which is typical of an austere disposition never approximate or uncertain. In spite of the nostalgic inclination, issued from her pictorial choices, there’s no motion of anxiety or restlessness for transiency as the privileged classicism immortalized the characters in forms and colours always repeating in art from thousand years. Nobody can guess if the painting of Giusy Uljanic will keep in future time the stylistic features of the illustrious classical tradition or if new incentives and other impulses will turn her art towards different directions. As the painting is the nature of the artist, it is possible to predict, without taking an extreme risk, that possible stylistic metamorphosis won’t distort too much her firm style, mirror of an anthropic and artistic culture always fond and respectful of the history committed to the new generations.
(Enzo Papa)