DRAWINGS 2020

Julia Kissina’s ink drawings on paper created behind closed doors during the spring and summer of the pandemic of Covid-19. They are mysterious, like the films of Jean Cocteau, alive like outsider art and free like the imagination of a transsexual. Directly addressing the cinematography of expressionism and film noir, like a movie, they feature scenes, faces, and credits. Similar to the artist’s previous works, such as the Dead Artists Society (a composite work of performance, text and drawing), these drawings reflect ritual and ceremony.

This time, Kissina explores religious practice, conspiracies, spells, purification, epiphanies, and other cognitive deviations, related to mystical or magical thinking in culture, aesthetics and psychiatry. Her protagonists are sometimes famous figures in the arts and politics; and sometimes chickens and pigs.

Parents. Ink on paper. 64x50 cm; 25x20 inch

Wedding. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Eclipse. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Hollywood-Fujiyama. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

High Society. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Magic Touch. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Josef Stalin and other Bats. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Lady with Dolphin. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Epiphany. Ink on Paper. 36x48 cm; 14,2x18,9 inch

Venice. Ink on paper. 36x48 cm; 14,2x18,9 inch

Tasmanian Tiger. Ink on paper. 36x48 cm; 14,2x18,9 inch

Testosteron. Ink on paper. 40x50 cm; 16x20 inch

The School Prinzipal. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Spectator. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Sleepers Ink on Paper. Ink on paper. 40x50 cm; 16x20 inch Ink on Paper 40x50 cm; 16x20 inch

Are there still people? Ink on paper. Ink on Paper 40x50 cm; 16x20 inch

Demonstration. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Melancholie. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Firmament. Ink on paper. 50x40 cm; 20x16 inch

Watchers. Ink on paper. 50x40 cm; 20x16 inch

The negative Image of a Rooster vs. negative Portraits of Sartre and Freud. 40x50 cm; 16x20 inch

Special Effects. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

The Masquerade. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Dirty Dancing-3. Ink on paper.30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Lady with Elephant. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Princess Diana and Owls. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Divercity. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Homecoming to Mars. Ink on paper. 64x50 cm, 25x20 inch

Wizard. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Luftschloss. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Extasy. Ink on paper. 64x50 cm, 25x20 inch

The New and Better World! Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Bitcoin Queen. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Against Aliens. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

Putin in Spiderland. Ink on paper. 30x40 cm; 15x17 inch

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