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Dancing into loneliness
In her paintings, Dalia Blauensteiner shows excerpts on canvas), in recent years she has turned primarily
of a worldview in which the superficial is taken as to representational painting, focusing on the human
an occasion to lure the viewer into profound stories, figure.
into imaginative landscapes and narrative fields of She succeeds particularly well in a series of works
strong color and grand gesture. in which the feminine body is at the center. Almost
Although Blauensteiner convincingly demonstrates floating, the wasp-waisted figures dance through the
in many of her works that she has learned to picture and seduce the viewer to accompany them
subtly combine abstraction and expressiveness, for on their way, wherever they go. In other paintings
example in her painting ”The Angel of a Night ”(oil Blauensteiner contrasts this lightness of being and
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