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ART Habens
Irena Romendik
Paranoid Style of stirring Impermanence Baffling
I’m a big fan of Tim Ingold, who compares
the world to a big kitchen where everything
gets mixed with everything else resulting in
a flow of life. I make my own paints to
experiment with possibilities, to play and
see what comes out of it. I’m an avid
collector of antique paints recipes, starting
from folk tales, textile dyers, Greece, Italian
Daughters of Alchemy, Arts and Crafts
movement, as well as contemporary
pigments generated for car industry and
physical computing. I’m personally inspired
by the materiality of the world because I
see material as a condensed energy ready to burst -- a materialization tool for a
creative concept.
Special Issue
Painting is analogous to cooking and mixing
matters, it's a very earthy and material
activity. Paint itself is a powerful attraction
before it is trained to mimic some object,
before the painting is framed, hung, sold,
exhibited, and interpreted. A blurry memory
of "pushing paint", breathing fumes,
dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing
and diluting and mixing is as essential to
the painting process as ideas and a subject
matter. Sometimes, the subject itself is just
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