Description
Untitled. Original color aquatint, 1976.
Adriana Maraž is a slovenian graphic artist, a well-known member of the conceptual visual art group “Group 69”. Along with other artists and groups of artists, she was important in establishing the abstract modernist artistic tradition within Slovenia. Maraž developed the color etching technique by loading multicolored graphic layers, and she is famous for her graphics of Biedermeier sofas and chairs, and other objects that are a metaphor for awareness of the passing of time, of the old and the new, of their appearance and what lies behind it. She humanized her armchairs and sofas and imprinted anthropomorphic gestures on them. In this graphic it looks like we are watching a lady sitting in this nineteenth century chair in a dress that is actually the furniture’s fabric, because Maraž imparts evocative personalities to her images of stylish furniture with strong tactile effect.
