Iva Tratnik
The academy-trained painter and versatile artist Iva Tratnik expresses herself through a variety of artistic genres, from textile collage and oil on canvas to sculpture, installations, and performance. Tratnik draws her ideas from the external world and connects them with events, objects, and forms she finds interesting. Her works combine unusual topics, which are even heart-rending in places, with attractive artistic execution characterized by body geometry, disregard for complex composition in perspective, and heavy contour drawing that gives an impression of plastically carved figures. With her perfected artistic language, Tratnik guides the viewer through a changing world full of mystery, which she partly reveals through clear geometricized surfaces and skilfully hides from view by overlapping them, thus creating an interactive play, through which she establishes special communication with the viewer.