Konveksno / Convex Painting

Born on March the 10th 1965, in Zagreb, Croatia, Europe. 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.This painters ouvres - 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.However, in spite of the before mentioned artists erudition, her expression doesnt refer to any historic compositional network. Anything that happens on the paintings background doesnt confront any constructivist dogma and there is no parodied-ironic construction of the prerogatives of neoplasticism. In broader perspective the references to the heritage of modernism or the poetics of revival of neo-geo and other neo-constructivist or neo-conceptual trends of recent past are missing here. Here even the conscious perseverance on modernistic abstract vocabulary cannot be discussed. The geometry is here - through clear linguistic units - only an expedient to the transparent process of thinking in order to witness the process of linguistic play within its development.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 yields in front of the painters intuition, playfulness and improvisation in the working process in which chance might take certain part.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.