SABINA SINKO

Born in Maribor, lives in Lendava, Slovenia. After studying art and art education, she works artistically as a painter and costume, set and puppet designer. She exhibited in Slovenia and internationally including Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Slovakia, Germany and Italy. She created visually many theater performances in Slovenia and abroad. In addition to artistic creation she is an Assistant Professor at University of Maribor.

In her artistic work as a painter she focuses on painting watercolors and acrylic techniques on canvas, paper and silk. Her artistic research topics are relationships between reality and fantasy, mass and popular culture and intimacy. In the last period she react emotionally to the tragic the world phenomena such as migration, refugees and ecological disaster. She often tends to surrealism, combination of natural and artificial worlds, humans and animals. She combines elements from different sources within a single painting, influenced by her observations of peoples’ daily interactions with nature she create a moving and unique portraits.

They are dreamlike and theatrical, with energy that is clearly perceivable by our sense. The images are leading to imagination and comes alive for the person who looks at it. Interlacing by techniques is very obvious in her paintings. She uses traditional Chinese ink and watercolors overlays several times, while maintaining each coat to achieve airness and a watercolor effect. She works in nontraditional uncontrolled, free-flowing way often mixed on different basis.

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