Alea Pinar Du Pre harnesses the potent expressiveness of digital art to craft a figurative style that presents a distorted yet recognizable portrayal of everyday existence. Within her work, women's portraits emerge through fractured reflections, unveiling the fractured identities of her subjects.
Born in Austria in 1972, Pinar Du Pre is influenced by traditional fine art and design practices of Vienna art societies Kunstlerhaus and Wiener Werkstaette. Pinar Du Pre began her career in 1995 with cubistic oil paintings on wood where she pictured street scenes of Istanbul. Since 2006 Pinar Du Pre has developed her unique portrait style with inspiration in areas such as science, science-fiction, history and anthropology. In this style, she finds radically new and innovative approaches to painting in which she mixes digital art with ‘the real world’.
Pinar Du Pre’s technique involves a fusion of materials, outlooks, and diverse inspirations. With layered materials such as acrylics, printed elements, and gilt captured under an epoxy lens, Pinar Du Pre finds a physical representation of the layered reality she aims to depict in her subjects. Paying tribute to her main influences, Pinar Du Pre describes her style as "Jugendstil Pop-Art". Distinguishing herself from Pop-Art, which is largely stimulated by the iconography of materialism, Pinar Du Pre’s vision is intimate and intends to subvert the genre.
The artist states of her work: "My endless questioning the nature of our existence stems from an insatiable curiosity and an unfathomable love for truth. I believe in the sacredness of the human experience. Art is a canvas to mutate my curiosity into a form I can share—to transfer scientific curiosity into pictures—to give form to the formless.”
