16 March – 10 April 2022

Danica Firulovic

The White Square

Danica Firulovic’s work has always been meditative, best approached slowly and contemplated. Her work animates whole worlds experienced through the subtle differences of white-on-white, controlled geometry, with the occasional peek at the raw linen below. 

Firulovic’s exhibition of new paintings synthesises this controlled symbolic language and a commitment to the square in a series titled The White Square. The monochromatic simplicity of the paintings evokes a controlled sensuality that pulses with a quiet, luminous force. White squares, varying in tone, are often framed by internal borders that ground the planes that stop short of the canvas’s edge, exposing a margin of raw linen. While certain symbolic elements continue from painting to painting, they never solidify into concrete language. 

By cultivating this ambiguity, Firulovic’s work questions how meaning is created through the painted surface. With such subtle intonations on offer it is hard not to bring your own meaning to Firulovic’s nearly-blank slates. Perhaps this is the work’s intent – a brief repose, allowing us somewhere to explore our own contemplations and emotions in a world so overloaded with information and meaning.

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Danica Firulovic
White Squares 2022
oil on Italian linen
102 × 102 cm

Danica Firulovic
White Square and Stripes 2021
oil on Italian linen
96.5 × 96.5 cm

Danica Firulovic
White Squares III 2022
oil on Italian linen
51 × 51 cm

Danica Firulovic
White Square II 2022
oil on Italian linen
40.6 × 40.6 cm

Danica Firulovic
Three White Squares 2021
oil on Italian linen
31 × 31 cm

Danica Firulovic
Untitled (Drawing III) 2022
oil and graphite pencil and pastel on linen board
43 × 43 cm

Danica Firulovic
Untitled (Drawing II) 2022
oil and graphite pencil on linen board
43 × 43 cm

Danica Firulovic
Untitled (Drawing I) 2022
oil and graphite pencil on linen board
43 × 43 cm