Kada je Fidija projektirao Partenon u Ateni, nije niti slutio da su karijatide na hramu pljunuta Izabela Šimunović. Oličenje Zlatnog Reza. Sljedeći Zlatni rez spominje Platon u svom djelu "Timej", kada opisuje pet pravilnih geometrijskih tijela – tetrahedron, kocku, oktahedron, dodekahedron i ikosahedron. To djelo niti među suvremenicima nije bilo posebno popularno. Izabela je kao mala više voljela čitati "Obranu Sokratovu". Euklid je u svom djelu Elementi dao prvu zabilježenu definiciju zlatnog reza, koji je nazivao "ekstremnim i zlim mjerilom"
Izabela je kao mala na poklon dobila knjigu Dušana Petričića i Ljubivoja Ršumovića "Još nam samo ale fale". U toj knjizi jedna se pjesma zove „Žurkata na akrepite". Akrep je ružno i zlo biće iz bajke. Porijeklo riječi akrep je grčko i potiče od prvog dijela Euklidove složenice (akros). Kažu da je H.C.Andersen bio "ružan kao akrep". Manje poznato je da je H.C. Andersen izrađivao paper cuts, pune trolova, plesača i likova iz njegovih bajki. Njegov je djed radio u drvetu. Svoju omiljenu pilu za drvo Izabela je dobila od oca. Otac se pojavljuje u Izabelinim paper cuts. On je Čovjek koji sjedi. Fibonacci je autor brojčanog niza zapisanog u njegovom djelu Liber Abaci, a nazvana je po njemu: Fibonaccijev niz. Za nju su prije znali samo frikovi poput Izabele, ali nakon što ga je popularizirao pisac krimića Dan Brown u svom hit djelu "Da Vincijev kod", sada su svi čuli za njega, pa ako vam zatreba zgodna lozinka koju ima još jedno pola milijuna ljudi, upišite: 1 1 2 3 5 8....
Luka Pacioli (nema nikakve sličnosti s Paciotti cipelama) u svom djelu "De Divina Proportione" – naziva zlatni rez – božanskom proporcijom. Nije poznato da li je američki transvestit i glazbenik Divine imao na umu baš tu knjigu kada je sebi davao ime, ali razne dive su bile poznate po svojim divine proporcijama, za koje nije poznato jesu li podlijegale zlatnom rezu, jer je Pacioliev dugogodišnji prijatelj Leonardo da Vinci nacrtao "Vitruvijskog čovjeka", tj. muškarca. Ne znamo da li je imao problema sa nalaženjem ženskih modela za aktove ili su mu draži bili muškarci.
Danas se sve više žena podvrgava raznim vrstama rezanja kako bi se što više približile današnjem kanonu ljepote za koji neki kritičari opravdano sumnjaju da iznosi 1:1,6 s obzirom na omjer veličine glave i dojki. Na uštrb glave, naravno. To se za Izabelu ne bi moglo reći. Ona je ponosna na svoju glavu. Johannes Kepler zlatni rez opisuje riječima "dragulj", te nastavlja: "Geometrija posjeduje dva velika blaga : jedno je Pitagorin Teorem, a drugo podjela linije na ekstremnu i zlu mjeru ; prvi se može usporediti sa mjerom zlata, ali drugi je neprocjenjivi dragulj." Isto bismo mogli reći za Izabelu : kada piše i govori često koristi ekstremnu i zlu mjeru, a inače je pravi dragulj.
Charles Bonnet isticao je da se u spiralnoj phyllotaxi biljaka s obzirom na kretanje kazaljke na satu, nalaze dva suskcesivna Fibonaccijeva niza. Izabela ima nekoliko sobnih biljaka, ali nije bila u mogućnosti provjeriti ovaj navod. Martin Ohm je najvjerojatnije prvi tvorac naziva Zlatni Rez. Izabela mu se najljepše zahvaljuje.
Edouard Lucas (1842 – 1891) nije bio pradjed Gerogea Lucasa, ali je Fibonaccijevom nizu dao ime. Za to nije bilo potrebno previše mašte. Mark Barr (20. st.) je kao simbol Zlatnog Reza upotrijebio grčko slovo Fi– "Fi kao Fidija", rekao je Barr.
Rada Vnuk i Zlatko Šimunović dali su maloj bebi rođenoj 1.6.1970 ime Izabela. U to ime, Zlatko je narezao pršut. U omjeru 1:1,6.
Salvador Dali je Zlatni Rez koristio stvarajući sliku Sakrament posljednje večere. Izabela je u Dubrovniku napravila performans Posljednja večera, na koji je pozvala i lutku Noru. Nora je imala božanske proporcije. Skulptura australca Andrewa Rogersa teška je 50 tona u kamenu i zlatu, a nalazi se u Jeruzalemu. Ako se gleda s lijeva na desno ili s desna na lijevo, broj kamenih blokova prestavlja početak Fibonaccijeva niza. Izabela Šimunović je u Australiji stala na poklopac oštećenog uličnog šahta ispred katedrale St. Paul u Melbourneu teškog oko tone. Šaht je tresnuo Izabelu u nos. Vlasti grada su odbile odgovornost za taj događaj, obrazloživši da je pad šahta "Act of God ". Izabela otada ponekad nosi bradu, kako bi pokrila ožiljak na nosu. Kada je gola, izgleda kao Božanski Akt.
Ali to nije sve : psihološke studije pokušale su dokazati da se ljudska percepcija ljepote zasniva na Zlatnom Rezu, ali to mnoge muškarce nije spriječilo da padnu pod Izabeline noge. U geometriji se broj FI pojavljuje kod pentagona, poput onih na nogometnoj lopti, koja je čest motiv u Izabelinim radovima. Simbol muškarca, kaže.
Radove Izabele Šimunović možete platiti gotovinom ili karticom. AmEx, Visa i MasterCard imaju omjer 1,586, što je gotovo jednako zlatnom rezu.
Imajte pri tome na umu akutni bol autorice uzrokovan posjekotinama od papira. Pošto posjekotine uzrokovane papirom obično ne krvare, receptori bola su izloženi kontaktu sa zrakom, što objašnjava zašto bol nastala stimulacijom velikog broja površinskih receptora kože toliko traje. A da ne pričamo o dodatnoj iritaciji uzrokovanoj vlaknima u papiru koja su često tretirana izbjeljivačem.
Nasumična orijentacija kolagenskog tkiva u koži omogućava koži da se odupre ubodima. Ali rezovi su nešto posve drugo. Njima ne možemo odoljeti.

Rujana Jeger, lipanj 2007.

When Phidias (490–430 BCE) made the Parthenon statues that seem to embody the golden ratio, he didn´t even suspect that they are spitting images of Izabela Simunovic. Embodiment of the Golden Ratio. Plato (427–347 BCE), in his Timaeus, describes five possible regular solids (the Platonic solids, the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron), some of which are related to the golden ratio. That book was never popular, even in his time. When she was a kid, Izabela preferred “In defence of Socrates”. Euclid (c. 325–c. 265 BCE), in his Elements, gave the first recorded definition of the golden ratio, which he called, as translated into English, "extreme and mean ratio" )]When She was a kid, Izabela was given a book called “Još nam samo ale fale” (Dragons are the only thing we miss) by Dusko Petricic and Ljubivoje Rsumovic. In the book there was a poem called “Zurkata na akrepite” (A ball of Akreps). An Akrep is a very ugly and mean being that appears in fairy tales. But the origin of its name is Greek and comes from the first word of Euclid´s name for Golden ratio - mean – ?????. They say that HC Andersen was as ugly as an Akrep. But it is less widely known that he was making paper cuts of trolls, dancers and caracters from his fairy tales. His father was a woodcarver. Her favourite woodsaw, Izabela got from her father. He also appears in her papercuts. He is the Sitting Man.
Fibonacci (1170–1250) mentioned the numerical series now named after him in his Liber Abaci; the Fibonacci sequence is closely related to the golden ratio. Only freaks like Izabela knew about it, but now it is widely popular, thanks to “Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown. If you need a handy password used by another half a million people or so, write down: 1 1 2 3 5 8…etc. Luca Pacioli (1445–1517) (has nothing to do with the famaous Paciotti shoes) defines the golden ratio as the "divine proportion" in his Divina Proportione. We don´t know if the famous american transvestite and musician Divine when choosing his atistic name had precisely this book on mind, but many divas were known by their divine proportions. It is not known if they corresponded to Golden Ratio, because Pacioli´s long time friend Leonardo da Vinci drew a Vitruvian Man. A man. We don´t know is it because he had a problem finding female models for his nudes, or he simply preferred men. Today, we see more and more women undergoing different kinds of cutting, so they would come near to the contemporary beauty canon. Some critics suspect that it is 1:1,6 between the head and the breast. Breast being bigger, of course. Izabela is not such a woman. She is proud of her head. Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) describes the golden ratio as a "precious jewel": "Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Pythagoras, and the other the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio; the first we may compare to a measure of gold, the second we may name a precious jewel." One could claim the same for Izabela: when she writes or speaks, she frequently uses extreme and mean measure, but otherwise, she is a rare jewel. Charles Bonnet (1720–1793) points out that in the spiral phyllotaxis of plants going clockwise and counter-clockwise were frequently two successive Fibonacci series. Izabela owns a couple of pot plants, but was unable do check this theory. Martin Ohm (1792–1872) is believed to be the first to use the term golden ratio to describe this ratio. Izabela is extremely thankful. Edouard Lucas (1842–1891) gives the numerical sequence now known as the Fibonacci sequence its present name. He didn´t need a lot of imagination to do that, did he? Mark Barr (20th century) uses the Greek letter phi (?), the initial letter of Greek sculptor Phidias's name, as a symbol for the golden ratio.`Phi like Phidias, said he”.
Rada Vnuk and Zlatko Simunovic named the baby girl born on June 1st 1970 name – Izabela. Zlatko cut some fine prosciutto in her name. In 1:1,6 ratio. Salvador Dalí explicitly used the golden ratio in his masterpiece, The Sacrament of the Last Supper. The dimensions of the canvas are a golden rectangle. Izabela had a performance called The Last Supper in Dubrovnik. She even invited the mannequin, Nora. Nora had divine proportions. Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers's 50-ton stone and gold sculpture, entitled Golden Ratio, is installed outdoors in Jerusalem. Rogers donated the sculpture. The height of each stack of stones, beginning from either end and moving toward the center, is the beginning of the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. While living in Australia, Izabela Simunovic stepped onto the loose man hole lid of street which weights roughly a ton. The lid hit Izabela across the nose. The authorities denied any responsibility for the accident, stating that it was an “Act of God”. Ever since, Izabela sometimes wear a bears to cover up the scar on her nose. And when naked, she looks like an Act of God.
But that is not all: psychological studies tried to prove that the human perception of beauty is based on Golden Ratio, which never stopped men from throwing themselves under Izabela´s feet.
In geometry, ? is used for pentagons, like those on football – often used pattern in Isabela´s artwork. She says it is a sybol for Man.
The artwork of Izabela Simunovic can be bought with cash or card. AmEx, Visa and Mastercard have ratio of 1,586, which roughly corresponds to Golden Ratio. Please keep in mind the acute pain due to paper cuts this artist suffered. Since paper cuts usually hardly bleed, pain receptors are exposed to air, which axplains why the pain caused by stimulation of a large number of surface pain receptors last as long as it does. Not to mention the irritation caused by bleach treated paper. Random orientation od collagen tissue in the skin makes it prick – resistant. But cuts are something else. We cannot resist them.
Rujana Jeger, June 2007


-otvorenje izložbe 30.06.2007 u Galeriji DECUMANUS, Krk

-exhibition opening 30. June 2007 @ Gallery DECUMANUS, Island of KRK, Croatia