Publication details
Samuel Paučo
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
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| Description | The art-historical study summarizing the work of painter Samuel Pauč. At the centre of Pauč's work is a fascination with the essence of painting itself, consisting in particular in the transformation of an abstract colour patch into an illusory representation. Paučo does not start from a precise initial idea, which he then tries to approximate as closely as possible on the canvas, but the principle of his work is just the opposite - it is based on a painting process in which, through a strange combination of chance and constant intellectual correction, shapes that evoke the subject world begin to emerge on their own. Using contemporary painterly means, ripping off adhesive tapes and expressive gestural painting, combining monochromatic black-gray-white surfaces with "artificial", sometimes even poisonous, shades of colour, Paučo creates monumental, extremely impressive paintings that tend towards disturbing post-apocalyptic or dystopian landscapes. In this way, Paučo also contributes significantly to the search for a new form of the classical genre of landscape painting. |