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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