MILLE FIORI, (Red-Blue), 120 x 120 cm - Limited Edition 10 of 130

TJAŠA IRIS

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120 x 120 cm - 900 USD

I took a picture of a flower in Malaysia, in Botanical Gardens in Kuala Lumpur. It shined like a star in the sky. I named it Mille Fiori - 1000 Flowers.
It is a photograph, but I also hand painted over it a little bit with acrylic paint.

120 x 120 cm, digitally altered photograph on textured pvc, hand painted over with acrylic paint, edition of 130, 2017

The Green version of the artwork was recently exhibited at my solo exhibition at BACC Bangkok Arts & Culture Center and was very much loved and photographed artwork in the exhibition. See the photo album of this exhibition. BACC is an institution with a million visitors per year, so in the month of August, there were about 100 000 who saw this exhibition. https://web.facebook.com/tjasa.iris/media_set?set=a.10213384808083135.1073741880.1487184121&type=3
I am showing the exhibited work here in the "in context photos".

The photograph is sold unframed, but can be framed at additional cost.

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Medium: Photography

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TJAŠA IRIS | Thailand

Tjaša Iris is a Slovenian-born artist, with Austrian and Italian ancestry living/creating in South East Asia since 2009. She is known for her photographs and large paintings painted with bright colors, vivid atmospheres of gardens with lush vegetation and bright light. Color is the main concern in her painting, exploring its emotional and expressive qualities.

Tjaša Iris is an exceptional colorist. While in her earlier work there were many landscapes and less gardens in her work of the last 10 years we see mostly gardens with lush vegetation. She dedicates most of her exhibitions to these themes. Her earlier work always had origins in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean part of Europe. She loves nothing but strong light and bright colors. Her colors came right from the tube. She is only buying most bright pigments of any brand. Her work of the last 3 years describes beautiful flowers & lush tropical gardens in bright, vivid, lush colors. Her paintings are full of a powerful unique energy. Her roots are in Expressionism, a modernist movement in Europe from the beginning of the last century. The movement's typical trait was to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. Her work is a continuation of these concerns.

Color is the main concern in her paintings, exploring the emotional and expressive qualities. She says: "It is about how colors just come at you or move away from you." Her colors are used freely and vibrantly. The paintings vibrate with the contrasts of light and dark, bright and dull and warm and cold. She is today more than ever an avid traveler, and she captures the essence of the places she visits in vibrant sometimes more descriptive while sometimes more abstracted pictures. Gardens with lush tropical vegetation and ornaments, busy landscapes with swirling clouds, Botanic Gardens of Singapore, Thai King’s Phu Ping Palace Gardens in Chiang Mai, gardens in Bali and Kuala Lumpur, Castello di Miramare gardens in Trieste, located only about 20 km from her Slovenian residency and studio at Branik village… Through her use of color and shape she captivates the viewer with her joyful celebration of life through her art. The explosive energy of South East Asia is making her paintings even more vivid and vibrant. She is also spending much time studying physics, the new studies about what the scientists have to say about the 5th, 6th, 7th … dimension. Quantum physics. Facts about energy and matter. The fact that colors have waves moving toward us or moving away from us..

Tjaša Iris is continuing in her own research in color as well as adding the atmosphere of today’s world to it. Her paintings on paper and canvass give you the feel of the flatness of a computer screen. Her large paintings on jute add another dimension to it. She is a clear representative of the Internet Generation. Her busy complex compositions reflect the busy loud information era of the fast moving time of today.

Her photographs and paintings are a dream world of happy atmospheres, strong light and uplifting lush colors.
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