May 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery presents
Naiko Tcherno-Ivanenko
New Paintings
May 7 – 30, 2010
Vernissage Friday May 7 / 7-10 PM
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Statement:
“The goal of my painting – if I can express it this way- is to find this lost instinct and to confront the modern world with it. Using oil paint as my only medium, I can concentrate on experimenting and developing new techniques. I mostly use the classic brushes, complementing with the use of a knife or my fingers.
I start a painting the same way I finish it, meaning that I don’t conceive of a difference between abstract form and figuration. Each form appears, more or less consciously, which can be both a recognizable shape or an informal trace, which will then lead to another form. Colour is often the link to the “reality” that holds everything together.
Physical and spiritual nature, the landscape as human psyche are present everywhere in my paintings.
My paintings are often described as sexual, I would say they are sexed, simply as living beings are. This aspect is present, simply to translate a much larger range of emotions. I also wish to scramble the interpretation, for myself and also the spectator, so as to be transported through all the dimensions of the image. I decide very few things in advance when I start painting, but logic is always there and surprises happen.
Action painting, glazes, classical figuration that is more obvious in certain spots… oil paint allows me to work with many “styles” on one single canvas; the goal being to somewhat keep the focus on the initial intensity, the general emotion, even if the image becomes more and more complex”. – Naiko Tcherno-Ivanenko, 2010
Merci.
Guy Berube, director
La Petite Mort Gallery