- Publisher: VigeVageKnjige
- 128 pages
- Author: Eva Mahkovic
- Ilustrator: Eva Mlinar
- Original title: Vinjete straholjubca
Vignettes have evolved over the course of eight years. As a combined effort between the two authors, they were developed with the intention of producing a literary-visual collection of bizarre anecdotes of unspecified type.
Eva Mahkovic composed and shared her texts on her Facebook site between 2011 and 2015. The original prosaic works with a few key protagonists have evolved over time into writings of a difficult to define form and have been populated with numerous characters and contents, to the point where they now constitute an autonomous universe. In it we find references to the Bible, works by authors like Arthur Schnitzler, William Shakespeare, Truman Capote, Agatha Christie, Umberto Eco, Edith Wharton, R. M. Rilke, and Hans Memling, passages from Victorian-era medical textbooks, pop music the author listened to while writing, and a variety of paintings, movies, and places with unusual names. In the Vignettes, each and every element is given a new role, a new connotation.
Eva Mlinar's illustrations, like the texts, also draw from numerous sources and transform those chosen fragments into a wonderfully vibrant fantasy world. And just as the texts are inspired by the grotesque – this mixture of peculiar, humorous, sardonic, and deformed images holding a deep meaning – so do the visuals, creating a cohesive whole.
The illustration techniques are diverse, with a strong preference for collage, which is not really surprising given that it is so close to the very concept of the bizarre. The majority of the clips are taken from old engravings and medieval illuminated manuscripts, and this blends naturally with the writings, which frequently draw on the medieval world of saints and legends.
Eva Mahkovic
Playwright Eva Mahkovic (1986) works at the Ljubljana City Theater (MGL). Her role requires her to analyze human interactions and psychology in order to find solutions to issues raised by the plays' texts and characters. She enjoys adapting books for the stage, such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, and The Wings of the Dove by Henry James. Occasionally, she also does translation work. Eva Mahkovic is the author of the play Little Queens (Male kraljice), which was performed by the Ljubljana Puppet Theater in 2017, as well as of the collection of Facebook poetry on a day like this mastercard takes the blow (na tak dan najbolj trpi mastercard, 2019).
Catholic iconography, Alexander McQueen, holy virgin Marys made of porcelain, greyhounds, Edith Wharton, Deyrolle, making up her own worlds, lists, and other lovely and odd things are some of her passions.
Eva Mlinar
Eva Mlinar (1985) completed studies in visual communication and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She mainly devotes herself to illustration, and her favorite field of creation is theatre: she has created play posters for theatres in New York, as well as book covers for the library of the Ljubljana City Theater. She is currently in charge of the visual presentation of the plays produced by the Novo mesto Anton Podbevšek Theater. With graphic designer Hana Jesih, she co-authored an artist's book IMPRESSIONS: Ljubljana / Istanbul (IMPRESIJE: Ljubljana/Istanbul), which is the outcome of their year-long visual correspondence. Collage elements are frequently used to enhance her artworks. She is fervently interested in the grotesque, antiquated atlases, the Near East, and the Middle Ages.
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