SELECTED ESSAYS and WRITINGS

MAYA KULENOVIC EN REMBRANDTS CLAIR-OBSCUR
by Bob van den Boogert, Conservator Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam

by EDWARD LUCIE - SMITH (from the book Maya Kulenovic, 2007)

Introduction by ERIC MORREN translated from Dutch

by LENNARD DOST

by A S HAMILTON

by BRUCE W WHITEHEAD



Interview 2012

Interview 2009



EXCERPTS from other writings and essays

'Maya Kulenovic's haunting portraits, torsos, and buildings dominated the 'Early Summer Exhibition' at the high-profile Blackheath Gallery, South London, UK......Kulenovic paints raw, intense portraits of adolescents and children whose shadowy, pale faces are heavy with emotion'.

from Galeries West Magazine, Calgary, 2006.


'The strongest pieces, and the ones that haunt the audience long after leaving, are the paintings of Toronto artist Maya Kulenovic. Born in Sarajevo, Kulenovic’s paintings in WAR reflect an intimate appraisal of the visceral, grotesque nature of the body and the mind caught in the violence.
Two of her pieces, Still Life with Napalm, and Still Life with Shrapnel, examine the human body in war. An unblemished child’s body, scarred on one side by napalm burns and the vulnerable reclined pose of a woman’s torso with shrapnel scars are disturbing not for the wounds, but for the intimacy and loving attention to the physical presences. Lethargy does not look at the victim, but the murderer. It is the body in a defeat of exhaustion from killing endlessly, "a devil, sick of sin." Kulenovic’s The Great War, is a painting that recalls the new ways of maiming made possible with 20th century weapons – it is of a man without a face, shown in profile. Kulenovic’s works are honest approaches to violation and injury, without wallowing in brutality.'

from The Horrors of WAR, by Hugh Graham Visual Arts, Fast Forward magazine, Calgary

all images: copyright Maya Kulenovic 2003-11