CRITICS
Ainhoa Fernández, art curator and founder of Art Bites podcast:
"The artist shows a confident and emotive command of color. The use of bold, central hues (like the rich red of the rose) contrasts effectively with softer or more neutral backgrounds. There's a clear awareness of color psychology, often using warm tones to evoke intimacy or passion, and cooler tones to provide balance or tension. This intentionality with palette contributes significantly to the mood and thematic clarity of the work.
Shapes are often symbolic and figurative, even within abstracted environments. There’s a careful balance between organic elements and more geometric or linear features (like curves, lines, or barbed elements in this example).
The compositional structure is visually engaging and well-planned. Focal points are clear, often enhanced through contrast, and the eye is guided through the canvas with strong directional flow lines, curves, and color blocking serve as visual cues. The artist seems aware of how to balance space, leaving room for the viewer’s eye to rest while still delivering rich visual interest.
In my favorite artwork Persephone and Hades a defining strength is how symbolism is used not as decoration, but as metaphor. The silhouetted face, the vibrant red rose, and the looping barbed lines create an immediate emotional impact. They speak of themes like longing, vulnerability, love, memory, or pain - all without a single literal statement. That ability to distill emotion into symbolic form is a hallmark of a mature artistic voice."
April, 2025​
Principe Alfio Borghese, art critic about opera "Out of ordinary towards freedom":
"Un quadro rovesciato: una donna rovesciata, e una che precipita da una gabbia dove rimane immobile un piccolo uccellino nero. Significati e significanti. Il messaggio è forte, per certi aspetti violento, sicuramente fa riflettere. Padrona della tecnica, la de Pan va oltre la mera raffigurazione per inoltrarsi in spazi ambigui e pericolosi. Tormentati.”
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An overturned picture: an upside-down woman, and one who falls from a cage where a small black bird remains immobile. Meanings and signifiers. The message is strong, in some ways violent, certainly makes us reflect. Master of the technique, de Pan goes beyond the mere representation to enter ambiguous and dangerous spaces. Tormented.
March, 2022
Salvo Nugnes, art curator:
"I lavori di Aleksandra de Pan scaturiscono direttamente dall'animo dell'artista e si compongono in un divenire di pennellate istintive. Ne derivano opere uniche, eredi della tradizione novecentesca della pittura concettuale, un'arte densa di significati nascosti, che sfida l'osservatore ad indagare l'ignoto.”
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The works of Aleksandra de Pan spring directly from the soul of the artist and are composed in a becoming of instinctive brushstrokes. The result is unique works, heirs of the twentieth-century tradition of conceptual painting, an art full of hidden meanings, which challenges the observer to investigate the unknown.
July, 2021
Plinio Perilli, art critic:
"Aleksandra de Pan è un’artista giovane che è comunque riuscita già a trovare la cosa più importante, una sua cifra: il suo stile, una sua maniera, una sua cifra di riconoscimento, con elementi amati, un po’ inseguiti che si rincorrono, quali surrealismo, futurismo ed espressionismo - un bisogno profondo di interagire anche tra le grandi avanguardie storiche, con anche un istinto profondo, quasi rinascimentale, che insieme è emozioni ed organizzazione di queste emozioni, una grande eleganza, che si evince e ricava facilmente dai suoi quadri.”
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Aleksandra de Pan is a young artist who has already found the most important thing, her stylistic language: her style, her own way of painting, her recognizable dimension, with beloved elements, that chase each other, such as surrealism, futurism and expressionism - as well as a strong feeling to interact among the great historical avant-gardes, with also a deep instinct, quasi renaissance note, which together is emotions and organization of these emotions, a great elegance, which is easily deduced and obtained from her paintings.
May, 2021​