Interview with Andrea Solaja, the Figurative Artist of Light and Dark

Andrea Solaja has just lately joined Rise Art, bringing her diverse portfolio of summary paintings and sculptures to the platform. Andrea creates worlds and people, playing with the contrast of light-weight and dark, and tells stories working with styles in her very own individual way to convey her feelings and as a resource of aid to escape from the shadows of her Serbian childhood when the nation was bombed.

Andrea Solaja taking Orestes, what have you performed? off the wall when it is marketed (@andrea_solaja)

How would you explain your creative model?

At the age of 10, I’ve had a horrible lifestyle working experience: my place was bombed.

My sole resource of relief to escape from the horrors of those times was imagining worlds and building stories inside the gentle of the only candle I experienced. The shadows projected on the partitions would convert into the shapes of the ever altering people of my creativity, I can see my fingers weaving  evanescent details which blended with the condensation and the chilly. That mild shone on an outer room which was as well tiny for a youngster. I experienced to produce one to develop into internal, immense.

I maintain my childhood and its dreams inside that smaller flame. I sealed the darkness I experienced within with the wax and with the wick I tied the memories of a existence which was not likely to be mine any longer.

My art unfolds around the narration of that light-weight. My paintings are symbionts of the recreation of contrasting gentle and dark which narrate with no revealing, which drain my inner emotions on the canvas avoiding the shapes from starting to be hurdles.

Andromeda I, 2022, by Andrea Solaja

What messages or themes do you want to communicate with your do the job?

I paint the tales that strike my chords, with which I perceive a bond.

As a tailor, I wrap my canvas all-around you to make you come to be the art that you would like to narrate. Your past, your perceptions and your emotions are reworked as the warp and weft of a special tale which has lastly been unveiled. Yours.

Andrea adding the closing touches to Alchemy (@andrea_solaja)

How has your apply evolved about the a long time? Have you normally labored in an abstract style?

Great dilemma.

To be trustworthy, I have under no circumstances imagined about it.

In phrases of technique, I’m not equipped to say superior or worst, let’s say that I have discovered my mark, my effect. Is not this what every single artist aspires to?

My adore for Figurative design hasn’t transform, but my sight surely has and that’s why numerous people outline my art, Summary.

‘’Nearsightedness’’ is my procedure, but the design and style is however Figurative.

Afrodite, 2022, by Andrea Solaja

What is an common working day like in your studio? 

Oh, you would be so bored spending time with me in the studio!

I am so immersed in exploration and in my views that I find it hard to be present in the terrestrial globe. I’m extremely sluggish in production of my art and the rationale of this slowness is because of to a whole lot of research driving just about every artwork: it commences from the tale I want to tell and how I want it to be advised the decision of the materials that very best fits the tale several hours of sketching… When I have the crystal clear idea in my head of the closing result, nicely that is the minute I start off with the creation.

Andrea sitting down in her ‘second home’, Artwork Area (@andrea_solaja)

What/Who are your critical influences?

Who?

I have normally experienced a passion for artists who have gone towards the tide, due to the fact you have to have to believe in opposition to the tide if you want to have really ground breaking strategies. Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy, Lucio Fontana… to identify a number of. Men and women generally compare my performs with Caravaggio’s due to the fact of the darkness and I’m good with that if we want to summarise briefly my art.

But, the reality is diverse. I’m obsessed with the tales behind each individual Artist and their time, the society they lived in, but primarily the cause which pushed them to make that kind of art, their psychology, their soul, their feelings and uncertainties…

What?

I’m a massive lover of Greek mythology, omnipresent in my do the job.

Afrodizie, 2022, by Andrea Solaja

Who are some Increase Artwork artists with perform you might be making the most of at the minute?

Basically a lot of them, these as Iain Andrews, Michele Fletcher, but Johanna Bath’s functions are undoubtedly my beloved. Her art reminds me of Gerhard Richter’s blurry collection, but enriched with a feminine touch.

Are you at the moment performing on any remarkable new initiatives?

My last job was ‘’Semi di Luce’’ for ‘’LUCE’’ Artwork Exhibition in Palermo and it was this sort of an astounding experience. September is close to the corner with a large amount of fascinating initiatives that I just cannot wait around to share with you! But now, I need some rest!

Semi di luce, 2022, by Andrea Solaja