
Vanda Vremšak – Richter: SILENCE (Opening of a painting exhibition)
Vanda Vremšak-Richter was born in Ljubljana. She attended junior high school in Germany. After returning to her homeland, she completed her studies in German studies at the Faculty of Arts, where she has been teaching at the Department of Modern German for many years. She is also a translator, primarily in the humanities and literature. During her frequent stays abroad (Vienna, Berlin, Sofia, etc.) she enriched her knowledge in the field of painting, otherwise her mentors were her grandmother Mara Kralj and painters from the circle of her acquaintances, both at home and abroad. Although she has been painting for a long time and has participated in several group exhibitions, it was only from 2010 onwards that she began to present herself to the public with solo exhibitions. Since 2011, she has been renting the former studio of her grandfather Tone Kralj in Izola, where the present paintings were created. During her recent fifth solo exhibition at the Insula Gallery in Izola, she wrote the following about herself:
“For as long as I can remember, painting has had a big impact on me. I absorbed power from the paintings of the King brothers, later entering the sublime world of symbolists (Khnopff, Previati, Vrubel, Borisov-Musatov, etc.), the light cosmos of the late Monet, the intimacy of Zakonjšek and Fick, etc. And here it is and has always been music. There was a very prosperous time in Germany, where my twin sister and I entered my mother’s world of opera theater as girls, which can be extremely inspiring, as it combines music and visual, and above all (I’m talking about top performance) strong emotions and feelings. Music was also placed in my cradle through my father a composer, who, in remoteness from reality, created his “abstract” works. I can’t really live without music. In painting itself, I practically do not want to and cannot be without its presence. It takes me away from everyday life and with its emotional stimuli somehow switches to a (subconscious) state of higher concentration and sensibility. Be it Händel’s piano suites, “Erbarme dich, mein Gott” from Bach’s Passion after Matthew, the work of F. Couturier performed by the Tarkowsky Quartet, Arvo Pärt or Philipp Glass. When this music flows through me, it is a mystical experience of infinite, often unbearable Beauty. And it seems to me that the painting as an illusory space absorbs this beauty and returns it in a visual image. This is not about visualizing music, but about reinterpreting its emotional-aesthetic charge and approaching its compositional structure. ”
- Vanda Vremšak Richter: Listi
- Vanda Vremšak Richter: Jesen
- Vanda Vremšak Richter: Impresija