LandE scape
Alena Koziol
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
emotions through unnatural colors and complex textures. Is important for you that the viewers attempt to recognize traces of reality in your works? In particular, how do you view the concepts of the real and the imagined playing out within your works?
The special thing about my artworks lies in the fact that first of all they must find the emotional response of the audience, so I admit that the appearance of subjective associations is possible. Still, it is important to me that my audience try to recognize the hint at imagery. In this case, the title is a clue. But, of course, I also understand that to recognize the reality in so simplified forms it is not always easy. But when it happens, my artwork have a complete sense. Everything fall into place.
When we look at PAPER AEROPLANE, we are struck by the atmosphere suggested by the darkness that saturates the canvass. Is this a reflection of you? Can you describe to me how this darkness that appears in your work connects to you personally?
At first, I must say that the dark painting is a kind of national peculiarity. Indeed it is difficult to work with bright colors in a place where winter lasts more than six months, where bright color seems unnatural. Therefore, the local artists often use very gloomy, faded, dirty palette and they are really afraid of pure color. But this work has arisen in a rather difficult period for me. I ' ve finished training at the university, and faced with real life. It ' s difficult enough when you live in a small town, and you are different from society as a whole. It is a small world in which there are certain
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