Collage sculptures
"You work with fragments and collages. This fragmentation as a response or counterpart to the fragmentation and rapidity of our society, world and daily life. These fragments are like a jigsaw puzzle combined into a new form.
These images are responses, thoughts, they are a process of searching and demand time, slowness and reflection. These important factors come to the surface by subtle shifts, elements being binded, folded, drawn on and painted. Your collages that were once a basis for your paintings are evolved to stand-alone mobiles, collage-sculptures and spatial paintings..."
Different collage sculptures and mobiles, mixed media
Fragmented world
"...As a viewer you become silent and astonished by your working process and the final images.
I can get lost into your works and take my time. You have gone through a very personal and intense path wherein you developed a very own method."
Letter from Eva De Leener and Stijn Van Dorpe, Artists, Royal Academy of Arts Oudenaarde, Belgium to Evivanca, painter of these fragmented worlds.
Painting left: "Flying"- Oil on canvas 70H x 90cm W
Painting right: "Lost highway"(1) - Oil on canvas 60 x 60cm
Towers
"...We find more tragedy in the work of Evivanca. We see collages and paintings of a fragmented world, artwork that especially for me, shows beauty. Therefore we must go back to the working process that plays an important role in Evivanca's work. She cuts copies of existing images into pieces, images that she is fascinated by. Afterwards she puzzles them into a new whole..."
Pictures from exposition "Variatie - Rond - Fragmentatie" in cityhall Oudenaarde, Belgium.
Painting left: Masks 80H x 40cm
Middle: Cylon-tower 80H x 40cm
Right: "Tower" Paperpainting 155H x 105cm
Worldview in progress
"...These works have a certain autonomy, but sometimes they serve as a base for the construction of a new painting. These paintings are painted with utmost care and precision. The movement that becomes visible is one of deconstructing, cutting up, breaking up existing worlds to put them with care into a new more beautiful? constellation.
The quality in this works lies for me in that movement. By the unmistakable presence of this process a time dimension becomes visible, a time dimension in which materials (paint, paper) are being handled with care."
On picture left: "Worldview (green)"- Oil on canvas 70H x 50cm
On easel: The making of "Worldview" - Oil on canvas 70H x 90cm
On wall: process of collages.
Fragmented world
"...We feel slowness, concentration. We get a look into the performing artist. By doing this Evivanca seems for me, wanting to put the time still, hoping in this silence of reconstructing, beauty will overcome."
Speech from Stijn Van Dorpe at opening exposition "Variatie - Rond - Fragmentatie, City hall Oudenaarde, Belgium"
Painting wall left: "Worldview"- Oil on canvas 70H x 90cm - "L'orage"(white) 70H x 50 cm
Painting wall right: "Vortices" - Oil on canvas 70H x 90cm
Spatial paintings
Comments of the Jury@Academy of Royal arts Oudenaarde: "This work feels like familiar, but at the same time you have never seen before"
"It has a beautiful honesty"
"It takes time to enter your work, but as a viewer you discover things, fascinating"
"This work is full of slow and whispering presences, some parts are also wounded"
Painting left: "Insomnia", Spatial painting on mdf
Painting right: Exposition Herzele - "Organic mountain", Spatial painting on mixed media