Creation of the World Drawing

Maria Corejova is a graduate of prof. Daniel Fischer `s painting school at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Until now she has been known especially as a painter, a video artist and a diligent cultural organizer /burundi, 13m3/. As a painter we could name Maria Corejova a portraitist. Obviously not in a classic sense. She has for example portrayed a butter, cars parking in front of block of flats, ring-shaped cake, sofa, beddings, but also a thick sauce with a fried egg. Her artistic direction has been characteristic of aestheticization of the banal, exploration of the ordinary almost naturally commonplace. She has not pointed only to the aesthetic dimensions of depicted objects but searched for their deeper inner essence. As a cultural organizer Maria Corejova has not been indifferent to the cultural life in Bratislava and she has systematically strived to create the space for presentation and re*ection of contemporary art. Firstly, under the civic association burundi /a historical follower of famous Buryzone/ and at the moment it is the organization 13m3, a virtual civic association organizing the activities taking place at still new venues. Drawings of Maria Corejova can in a certain sense be characterized as intimate. They testify about something we do not know exactly, what we do not understand but what refers to the personal world of Maria Corejova. The titles suggest their meanings but do not direct us. The clue to read the motifs from sport, aviation, architecture, religion is here but it is only the author who has the only correct one. Perhaps it is the intention to state for the viewer the question whether the author himself is able to interpret all the meanings used in his/her work. Is a massive tube eating the cathedral or the Church? Or is the cathedral created by a tube? Is everywhere present liquid blood or a symbol of pain or is it a life-giving liquid? Do sportsmen represent a systematic self-destructive agonizing activity or are they good guardian angels? Do amputated armchairs, beds, pillows, books stand for a pain in relationships, human estrangement and long-term misunderstanding or is it something completely else? It is possible to analyse, interpret, search for, wander through the drawings of Maria Corejova but never to understand them fully. You have to communicate with the drawings of Maria Corejova - personally and intimately - thus dynamising and shaping their own, still developing story.