| Julia Gutkina constructs geometric paintings, a painterly
geometry of abstracted reality. Moments from a walk, or a glance out of
the window are, in their essential areas and lines, analyzed and consequently
set down in the skeleton of a sketch, which just marks the compositional
elements of a realistic picture. Abstracted to such an extent, stark reality
is transformed into an almost constructionist painting. Lines, areas, and
finally, even the colour, for the most part restrained, apparently develop
autonomously. This geometry however isnŐt objective, the painterly characteristics
being much too vehement, the contrast between line, area, space and colour
much too dramatic. The emotional and lyrical capriccio gives the pictures
mood and character and is even capable, now and then, of recounting what
stood at the beginning, the walk in November or the view onto a cold and
grey city.
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