The Parisian Cycle

In the Parisian Cycle, Koraljka Kovač does not depict Paris as a postcard, veduta, or series of recognisable urban motifs. Instead of a literal city, the artist constructs a space of impression: a series of small painting-drawings on paper in combined technique, created in 2012 during a two-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. This cycle does not convey the city's topography, but the atmosphere of the stay – the rhythm of looking, the silence of concentration, and an inner sensitivity that flows into a layered, airy, and meditative image. In these works, abstraction does not feel closed or cold. On the contrary, it retains echoes of nature, light, parks, water, and sun, opening before the viewer scenes that simultaneously function as inner landscapes and traces of real experience. The Parisian Cycle can therefore be read as a visual diary of a stay, but also as a subtle study of perception. There is no need for narration in the classical sense; meaning arises through layers of colour, the rhythm of circular and organic forms, and the feeling that the scene constantly shifts gently before our gaze. These are works that do not demand quick reading, but slow immersion – into colour, light, and that quiet inner geography the painting merely suggests, while the viewer completes it with their own experience.