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Description of Style, Theme
My interest in color and abstraction dates back to my studies
at the Academy of Fine Arts. For me, painting is an image of purified
creativity and manifestation of visual experience with the color.
In my creative process I have been focusing on organic perception
of colors in which I assess the warmth, the vibration, the radiation,
and the endless potential hidden in the talk of colors (just as
in music). I perceive the color as a material quality and struggle
to release its physical power. I conceive the painting as an opening
which penetrates the color mass. In a simplified way I would
describe my work as "Reduced color abstraction, highlighting
the quality of the presence of the color, creating interconnected
syntactic entities". In my work I furthermore deal with:
(1) new sensitivity of the color surface; (2) quality of color
contrasts, color lucidity all the way towards transparency, the
palpable quality thereof; (3) delimitation and looseness of the
physical gesture and the brushstroke in its natural movement;
(4) balancing of the work in bodily confrontation with it; (5)
creation of subjectively-objective semantic color system by which
I replace the system of color qualities imposed by advertisement
and industrial development (as comparable to homeopathic treatment). |
Nearly Monochromes
As implied by the titles of my exhibits, I furthermore explore
the potential and the limits of abstract expression, in a tentative
process of engaging in confrontations having to do with imaginary
boundaries and pre-determined principles (such as contesting the
relativity of surface frontiers determined by the frame of the
painting, frontiers imposed by threedimensionality of the painting,
monochromaticity of the surface, etc.) I have been striving to
define myself against the dogma.
Painting Technique
I have been using pigments, acryl and bonds on canvas (on a wooden
frame). |
