... making the feeling of emotions visible.
The artist Anna Corni was born in Negotin, Serbia in 1973 and has lived in Vienna since 2003. The reason for her artist pseudonym - Anna Corni - is that it gives her the chance to have her own space and complete freedom of design. Anna Corni's first encounter with drawing and painting took place at school. Even then, she developed an enormous joy and passion for painting, which her art teacher Tihomir Nicic also recognized and worked with her to set up the school art club. The subsequent encounter with pencils, brushes, paints, screen printing and creative projects lasted 4 years. In high school, Anna Corni became part of the local art department and was able to live out her talent there. Despite the strong creative development, Anna Corni enrolled in economics after graduating and later became a mediator. It wasn't until 20 years later that she finally found her passion again and began a phase of her life painting and drawing. An official painting course also followed in 2020 in the May neighborhood gallery, which also provided the impetus for the current use of oil paints.
I prefer painting oil on linen as realistic and romantic representations. For me, expressionism touches on feelings, experiences and fears and can thus express feelings. I get my greatest inspiration from what I experience, from my own emotions, from nature and people.
Special Achievements:
- Anna Cornu's first solo drawing exhibition took place in August 2020 at Café Koror in Vienna.
- A large project in collaboration with Milan Vukovich allowed Anna to expand her color spectrum and advance into other painterly dimensions.
- Milan Vukovich about Anna Corni: "The commission given to the artist in 2022 included 4 historical portraits of the Vukovich i Kotromanich family history of the 14th century. The iconography that Anna Corni chose is derived from the important fresco art of the sacred wall paintings of the Middle Ages as a postmodern contemporary configuration of portrait art in Serbia. She not only knew how to aesthetically transform the content to reflect a new spirit of the times, she was able to give the historical personalities of those depicted in their physiognomy the representative meaning that our museum needed. Due to her empathetic painting style, she captured both the compositional and the painterly Duktus, the basic essence of the theme in the use of carefully selected color. The result is new contemporary masterpieces full of archaic primal power, a spiritual glow from a talent and a passion for a completely extraordinary style. Anna Corni transforms her canvases into places of admiration, as places of great quiet enthusiasm, which she defines herself as a special person and unstoppably reflects." - Milan Vukovich, art collector and museum founder, 2024
(Art historical analysis of the commissioned works by Zaklina Gudojevic Anna Corni for the museum art collections Milan Vukovich Late Eastern Roman Grand Voivodeship Collections Old Church Slavonic Middle Ages since the Council of Nicaea 325-1520.)
