Dora HanžEk

Born on November 28th, 1982. in Zagreb, Croatia.
Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

My figurative paintings are based on chosen frames from the movies, which are charged with emotions and stand out as particularly recognizable. What characterizes my figurative paintings, and what makes them specific, comes from the way I blend colors and apply them on canvas to create dynamics and stimulate viewers memory in hope of reawakening the emotions that permeated them at the time of watching the movie. My ultimate goal is to intertwine my works with viewers memories in such a way that they remember not only the movie but also people they watched it with and surroundings in which they were at the time. I would like to achieve that whether or not they are looking at portraits of the main characters from “One song a day takes the mischief away”, or depictions of bizarre events from “Amarcord”, or tense moments from “Vertigo” or complete alienation of an individual from reality with fantastic music from “The Wall”.
The technique is oil on canvas, and I paint in a way that I build the surface of the canvas from irregular surfaces one to another, and not with the classic way of painting light and shadow. It is interesting to me that the div...

Graduated at School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb in 2001.
Graduated as MFA at painting department on the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, under the mentorship of prof. D. Jurić, 2009.
A member of Croatian Association of Fine Arts since 2010.

A dosen standalone exhibitions
and a few dosen group exhibitions.