In the second, within the same year, personal exhibition titled “Inner Thoughts” Zanna sweeps us along through her own multi-colored world and invites us to “look at” and not merely to “see‘. Obeying inner impulses and inspired artistic concerns she manages to expose in her works the inner life of forms expressively and impartially as she understands and thinks.
The works of Zanna appear bright, strange and alive, to be lighted up needing the sharpest red, and the most dazzling yellow, the deepest blue or conversely only two colors, the white and black. She manages to touch upon the verses of her friend, poet Olga Micheli, and to substantiate them into transcendental poetic images full of feeling and pathos.
By using a small amount of blue she creates the series “blue clock” originating in the words of the painter, “to my inability in morning rising which made me change daily the position of the blue clock. The morning sound filled with mystery the corners of my room and each one individually was impressed on the canvas”.
We shall also meet the clock in other works of the painter, depicting each time the flow of time, an endless exchange, a give and take making interdependent and un- ,, broken the relation of the before and the alter of the present and the future.
Through a detailed vividness are nevertheless included elements of surrealism, the artist inspired by her tutor the late painter and man of letters Kostas Routis, student of the surrealist painter Engonopoulos.
The vividness is transformed into objects of thought and a cause of meditation. Dominant element in her works is the human loneliness and the existential angst of the U individual living in the city, searching for ways of escaping from the traps of one‘s urban routine, leaving one stripped and alien in his own city searching for the enigma of one’s own existence.
Loneliness, friendship, lost youthfulness, bitterness for loves lost, dreams for loves to come and sometimes a look in the ancient Greek grandeur are subjects preoccupying Zanna. She transports them on the canvas in her own characteristic manner, cutting her objects, her forms abruptly as if she zooms on a point she considers significant and thus allowing the viewer to complement the rest as he wishes and as it expresses him.
Her “Inner Thoughts” of Zanna originate from experimental, existential conditions as well as from her wishes of exploring her artistic and social identity, expressing at the same time a personal deportment of life.”
Andreola Aphroditi
Painter – Art Historian
