The latest work by artist Ariadne Vitastali takes characters from ancient Greek mythology as its starting point, drawing them in her personal, femininely brutal, way — balancing between representation and abstraction, beauty and ugliness, contemporary and classical, fullness and emptiness.
While designing the catalogue, which showcases her most recent series of works, the above concepts were visualised using a variety of means that are in open dialogue with the work, carefully providing the necessary space for it to stand out. On the one hand, typography with great size contrasts that walks the line between the dynamism and the fragility, or the present and the past. On the other, purely formalistic references found in the works, such as the layering of the various elements or an ‘acidic’ colour palette in which, in addition to black and white, neon yellow is also introduced. Both the cover and the inside of the catalogue feature the works’ basic structural elements: selected painterly gestures, translated, however, as outlines — as such leaving behind only their skeletal structure, turning them into preparatory drawings or blueprints of the forms from which they originate. The cover is stripped of any other elements (as if it’s a work itself), so that it may stand out freely and autonomously.
