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the fleeting happiness of love with the dark side of       The paintings of Dalia Blauensteiner are alive with

           togetherness, as is clearly thematized in the paintings    their vibrant colors, to which the formal structure is
           ”Zweisamkeit” (Togetherness) or ”Verabschiedung”           subordinated. At the same time, the Lithuanian artist
           (Farewell) (Pastel on  paper), in  which  she makes        shows a fine feeling for color fields and break-ups at
           her pictorial means very concise and playfully deals       the edges of the colors, for flowing transitions and
           with quotations and set pieces from past stylistic         motivic metamorphoses, and trusts that the viewer

           epochs. This also applies to her landscape paintings       will decipher her semiotic system and not be able to
           and still life’s.                                          escape the deep pull of the pictures.
                                                                                                    Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gensch

                                                                           Curator Campus Cultur, Danube University Krems
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