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Irene Donatini

BEAR Fine Art
Bachelor
Irene Donatini, Houd me vast, photographed by Han Gyeol Kim
Irene Donatini, Houd me vast, photographed by Han Gyeol Kim

By approaching art as an intensified version of journaling, I aim to maintain its close connection to the mundanity of everyday life. Daily landscapes, moments, and figures appear in my work as characters of a contradictory fantasy world that contains, among other things, a gigantic heart-broken Minotaur locked up on the top floor of a Dutch house with a mouse, a labyrinth as big as the world, and a crazy inventor constantly busy building machines of dubious nature. 

Irene Donatini, Houd me vast, photographed by Han Gyeol Kim

 


A sense of voyeurism nourishes my desire to play with the audience’s perception and participation, enlarging or shrinking their well-known landscapes, giving them access to else inaccessible “other sides”, such as the inside of the walls of their room, or a glimpse of themselves from outside their window. 

Irene Donatini, Page of book _Any questions__

 


Meanwhile, frustration and boredom fuel my resistance towards orthodox methods of working, which recently led me to contemplate stillness as a place of learning, researching, and even making: how small of a gesture is necessary to spark an affinity?

Irene Donatini, Still from video _Asterion_

 

This page was last updated on July 11, 2024