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In recent years Darija Dolanski Majdak creates variations of complex and above all attractive neoplasticistic paintings using the characteristic serial accumulations of regular little squares within a system of horizontals and verticals. The works presented in the exhibition "the deep Z" again create the rich and intense grate-like construction/filling, the network of squares of identical dimensions, but different achromatic hues. The harmonic rows of nuanced little squares "move" in running flow on vertical and horizontal, identically wide bands which alternate over whole surfaces of paintings thus creating a dynamic and rhythmic pattern with powerful optic impression.
This painter's ouvre - always self-regenerating within the relevant achievements - develops through rigorousness, self-responsibility and self-reflection, knowledge and understanding of individual and to her intimate issues of geometric styles from recent or distant history of art and especially contemporary art, but above all thanks to femininity, unique feminine intuition and refinement.

Darija's new painting cycle is more individual, subjective and relaxed than the recent cycles "Skyline" and "High Tension" which she has recently presented to the audiences in Rijeka and Zagreb. It is even more emancipated than the experiences of constructivists, especially neoplasticists as Mondrian and van Doesburg, these recognisable points of constructivistic demonstration of rationalistic exploration of form, "hide-and-seek" and serial flow of calculated historic geometry where all geometric forms were evaluated and paintings seemed printed rather than painted.

Therefore Darija can only be considered an abstract painter who is interested exclusively in the relationships between forms and colours in the visual space.
The painting grid is (in its initial stages) only partially pre-assigned and precisely stated; it is founded on the mathematical logic and progression. The feminine intuition has here a huge role, because the artist surely (at least more often than not) doesn�t know in advance the result of her painting efforts or all of its vicissitudes and transformations. Darija's attractive structures are, hence, mostly the product of her arbitrariness and feminine intuition which is particularly accentuated in the very title of the exhibition, "the deep Z", that refers - as this exhibition is perceived - to the feminine intuition, sensuality and refinement.
The autodiscipline that Darija has previously imposed to herself is gradually loosening and today she is a more relaxed painter and the controlled and conscious organisation of the surface as well as the geometric calculation in these five paintings yields in front of the painter's intuition, playfulness and improvisation in the working process in which chance might take certain part.
The great number of fluctuations of seething and heaving little squares, intermissions, caesurae, their spiral turns and shifts, changes of direction, impression of horizontal and vertical energy, interweaving and whirling of lines and dense, regular grid only partially explain this ouvre. The symbolic-visual fields are here developing from the artist's involvement in artistic and broader spiritual movements of her times. Even the most recent paintings, that seem to be only the initiated structural and coloristic research from which new cycles of paintings could develop, create a bridge between the classic geometric expression and contemporary texture that indicates to a computer grid in colossal performance.
Today the intersecting lines in their dynamic meandering do not seem as the traditional neoplasticism, but within their elusive trajectories and accelerations which, seen through the filter of square mosaic of pixels, look like details of contemporary technologies or cybernetics, computer animation, endless prints from cyberspace, neurone paths of great computers or maze-like systems of electronic transmitters whose hidden contents are still not decoded.
Even more attractively set verticals and horizontals in dynamic meandering and elusive trajectories seem to intersect at speed of electronic plasma whose logic of rhythm we cannot discern. The dimensions of wide spaces and very sensitive motion and even the illusion of space and motion are created in a sensitive manner within the restricted action space limited by the size of painting.
The attractive system of pulsating fields in their movement on the verticals and horizontals seems to visualise Darija's perception of happenings in the invisible, but so provocatively propulsive background of digital activity that - as visually withheld to us - noiselessly spread through electronic plasma. The impression of seething, nuanced lines pulsating like plasma over the canvas is created and it even seems that if we put our hands on the canvas we might feel their propulsiveness and the speed of friezes.

The most recent works also declare that Darija is creator of sumptuous visual spectacles, a fantast who pulls complex and ingenious frameworks out of narrowed repertory of geometric forms.
This painting is characterised by the emphatic precision that demands a great concentration in the execution of the medley of bands. Dedicating the outstanding attention to the idea as well as the creation technology of painting, this is Darija's personal contribution to the skill and knowledge, reflection and spontaneity, liveliness and dynamic that painting as medium allows.
The new paintings associated by the audio installation and the film again declare that Darija is the author of one of the most consistent ouvres in recent Croatian painting that from one exhibition to the other experience ever more remarkable and self-regenerating, fresh and vital versions, always executed according to the new formal solutions that are carefully placed into adequate spiritual constellations and contexts.
This painting cycle declares the fact that Darija does not wish for a moment to build a definitive, self-enclosed, perfect, ideal whole/form, because within her ouvre everything is always held up in a single phase of the research development - meaning opened - where the unsurmised possibilities of further variations of the same theme are only traced.
The new works confirm that Darija prefers research and pleasure in the play of forms to all other, seemingly more ambitious aspirations and achievements.
Darija's always vital and fresh production of paintings regenerate her own researches that always result in new and above all persuasive formal solutions, painting cycles and constellations while she tirelessly traces further possibilities of research and building of new constructions, confirming the old truth that in the strict art of constructive approach the imagination is not only necessary, but in the ultimate consequence prevails over all system and systematic elaboration.

Ivica ZUPAN

Intermission

2006.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Intervention

2006.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Interchange

2006.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Concave

2006.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Convex

2006.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Chaos

2006.
oil on canvas
95 x 150 cm

Cobalt Blue

2002.
oil on canvas
130 x 90 cm

Skyline Revisited No.01

2007.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Skyline Revisited No.03

2007.
oil on canvas
95 x 150 cm

Skyline Revisited No.08

2007.
oil on canvas
95 x 95 cm

Skyline Revisited No.11

2007.
oil on canvas
95 x 150 cm

Skyline Revisited No.12

2007.
oil on canvas
95 x 150 cm