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In her paintings, Dalia Blauensteiner shows excerpts of a world figures dance through the picture and seduce the viewer to
view in which the superficial is taken as an occasion to lure the accompany them on their way, wherever they go. This also applies
viewer into profound stories, into imaginative landscapes and to her landscape paintings and still life’s. The paintings of Dalia
narrative fields of strong color and grand gesture. Although Blauensteiner are alive with their vibrant colors, to which the formal
Blauensteiner convincingly demonstrates in many of her structure is subordinated. At the same time, the Lithuanian artist
works that she has learned to subtly combine abstraction and shows a fine feeling for color fields and break-ups at the edges of
expressiveness, for example in her painting “The Angel of a the colors, for flowing transitions and motivic metamorphoses, and
Night “(oil on canvas), in recent years she has turned primarily to trusts that the viewer will decipher her semiotic system and not be
representational painting, focusing on the human figure. able to escape the deep pull of the pictures.
She succeeds particularly well in a series of works in which the Dancing into loneliness by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gensch
feminine body is at the center. Almost floating, the wasp-waisted Curator Campus Cultur, Danube University Krems

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