b-loud: Figurative Drawing: Sketching to the Bone: Andreja Repnik

// March 10th, 2010 // b-loud // Lawrence


Slovenian artist Andreja Repnik brings a unique vision to the figure.
Seethingly torn and ripped limbs are reconstructed with fibre, wood and what could be coral. Her drawings arrest your attention and make you question the mutilation. At only 24 it’s clear what a promising future Andreja has ahead of her. Read on and you’ll learn how coherently her work exerts the way she sees the world.

b-Loud!

b-uncut: What was your very first artwork?
 Women in luxurious clothes (marker on paper).

b-uncut: Describe the piece you love the most—why?
One element, female body embraced with wire, her back is so fragile and at the same time so strong, you can never know what she sees or what she thinks.

It represents me, my thinking about this world, life and how it is so empty some times and I also use themes of nature, wood, life. Elements which never die and have a thousand uniqe shadows. Nature is always telling us how to survive in the long term. It seems some people see and some don’t.

b-uncut: What are your methods? Your inspirations?

Just sit down and start… let’s go… I take what I have, shadows leads me at every step and the paper opens a new dimension. I have no fear, ther is just me, paper, ‘tool’ and shadows. I am inspired by nature, people, tone, smell, taste and sight.

b-uncut: What did it take to make it to where you are now?

Not much,… just life without compulsion … I started on canvas eight years ago and ended up drawing. So I seriously deal with drawing the last two years… in the other hand I draw from early age.

b-uncut: Do you make a living from your artwork?

No.

b-uncut: Who has helped you along the way?

Hm, very little help from others. The last three years has helped me find the art I want to express.

b-uncut: What 5 artists (dead or alive) would you invite for the ultimate dinner party?
Salvador Dali, Albrecht Dürer, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Jeff Bartels, Leonardo da Vinci.

b-Quick!

b-uncut: Qualities a man needs to seduce you?

Artist, a man with a special view on the world, academic, longterm creator, or just a stranger from the street or farmer.

b-uncut: Your parents advice you should have followed, but didn’t?

‘I told you what to do.’

b-uncut: The power you wish you had?

Freedom… is that a power?

b-uncut: Who would you chose to rule the world?

You, me, my mother, father, brother, sister,…

b-uncut: Favourite ice-cream?
Hm, yogurt with cherry sauce.

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b-Honest!

b-uncut: Where do you see yourself in…..

One month?

studying.

One year?

studying.

One decade?
uh…. in rural France. Small rural house, canvas, oil, paper, pencil, …and a lot of colors.

  • barbaraleavitt
    I love this..very interesting design elements..I love the ballet dancers..I want to look at this a lot..I'm discovering eye balls..feeds me....
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