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Burlesque (Бурлеска). Soft pastel, fungi (Astraeus macedonicus, Etheirodon fimbriatum, Junghuhnia nitida, Terana caerulea, Trametes cinnabarina, Peniophora incarnata, Trichaptum sp. and 4 unidentified species) and lichens Usnea sp. and Cladonia sp. on handmade fungal paper. 38 x 37 cm; 2021. Inscriptions from The Letters of Sylvia Plath, volumes I (2017) – letter to Aurelia Plath, 8 July 1945, and II (2018) – letter to Elizabeth Sigmund Sept 8, 1962. Quotes at the suggestion of Gail Crowther and Peter K. Steinberg. Kristina Zimbakova’s solo art show, entitled "Rising Vowels", was mounted at the Research Dissemination Centre of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on 20th May, 2022. The display was part of the international Sylvia Plath & Trans-Atlanticism Symposium, and it presented Zimbakova's artworks informed by the poetry and letters of Plath - a landmark 20th century American poetess. The paintings have been created in the last couple of years, in the technique mixed-media on canvas or on fungal paper handmade by the artist. The exhibit was curated by Prof. Emily Van Duyne from the USA, who is currently a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Aristotle University in Greece.
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PainterKristina Zimbakova (1975) is a Macedonian visual artist. Her art practice is interdisciplinary: poetry references along with fungi as media are significant features of her work. Zimbakova creates symbolic and figurative mixed-media paintings with rich texture, which often sit in between the borders of painting and sculpture. Supporters1. Soloprom Archives
May 2022
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