Janika Fabrikant
French-Swiss painter
Janika Fabrikant (born 1934), is a French-Swiss painter of urban and industrial landscapes, who was born in Paris, France. She lives in Zürich, where her painting is prominent because of its special characteristic of cognitive dissonance. Her style, based on Surrealism, expresses a marked discrepancy between visual reality and terror.
Career
From 1953 to 1955 Fabrikant studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1961 she moved to Zurich, where she enrolled at the Zurich University of the Arts and studied painting from 1982 to 1985.
Her artistic development was inspired by visits to the U.S.A. where she felt a closer affinity to the contemporary art movements compared to Picasso and the Parisian avant garde, with which she had grown up. She was strongly influenced by Edward Hopper and Milton Avery. In Detroit Fabrikant discovered her theme which she rendered in her characteristic synthetic colours, removed from nature. In 2013, one of her installations, The Butterfly, was selected as a finalist in the Waste•smART creative competition, run by the European Environment Agency.
Style
To reach out to Fabrikant's visual language some critics have attempted to categorize her style as "Visionary Precisionism" or "Expressive Objectivity" But her work is more complex.
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