Wednesday, July 30, 2008

KAROLINA

The black outlines, blocky shapes and other-worldly ambience of Icelandic artist Karolina Larusdottir's work lend it a similarity to that of Paula Rego. But where Rego's characters are fraught with sexual tension and locked into nightmares, the people in Larusdottir's enigmatic pieces seem to be stuck in a state of stolid endurance, in many cases made bearable by the intervention of sensible-looking angels with idiosyncratically-shaped wings.
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=238392&in_page_id=249&in_a_source=

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