Lipstick Paintings A La Fontana

On this painting series of Orshi Drozdik, titled Lipstick Paintings A la Fontana, the punctured holes are wounds on the stretched canvases. Rubbed red lipstick covers the abrasion of the painting-body. The holes on the skin of the paintings mark the force of penetration.

On Lucio Fontana monochrome paintings series titled Spatial Concept (concetto spatiale) the punctures force of the gesture towards the viewer in a way that is at once energetic and threatening. In his buchi (holes) cycle he punctured the surface of his canvases, breaking the membrane of two-dimensionality in order to highlight the space behind the picture. The wounds of the surface open into the third dimension of the painting.

In Drozdik’s psychoanalytic and deconstructive interpretation, the punctured holes penetrating the painting-body. The painting itself turns into a female body, on which lipstick covers the injury. The spatial concept opens into the locus of representation of women.