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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets

Alena Koziol

An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Artist Alena Koziol ' s work establishes a channel of communication between reality and imagination to challenge the relationship between the viewers ' perceptual parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to elaborate personal associations , offering them a multilayered aesthetic experience . Her paintings condense emotion and memories , as well as tarces of reality wisely combine with a captivating abstract feeling . One of the most impressive aspects of Koziol ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to invite the audience to partake in her inner experience . We are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating artistic production .
Hello Alena and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You have a solid background and you received a classical education in the field of fine arts . As a student , you also joined the Youth Association of the Union of Artists of Russia . How did these experiences influence your evolution as an artist ?
Hello ! I ’ m very glad to be here . I think that my experience is directly influenced me . Education has given me what I find the most important for an artist – it is the foundation , the base , which makes it possible to move forward , to get professionally . Creative environment , drawing skills , the study of art history , knowledge of the rules of composition and regular practice make it possible to further experiment with your own style , work carefully and self-critically , to be able to analyze art . I ' m still grateful for some of his teachers and curators for the fact that they gave me . I think that each of them to a greater or lesser degree has helped me in time of formation of my personality . I really feel sad because in today ' s world , some artists neglect the academic knowledge and experience of past generations . They believe that it is not necessary , if you create abstract works . This leads to the prosperity of dilettantism and disorients the viewer . So in general I hold to very conservative opinion about education in the arts . For example , it is difficult to imagine that it is possible to achieve professional growth in a modern ballet , without the classical school . Even if
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