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Artist Statement -



OVERCOMING OF LONELINESS
Painting as well as any present{true} art is improbably sensitive to an essence of time, its{his} secrets, fears, hopes … the Rhythm of an epoch, its{his} power, always неосознанно are reflected in music, the literary statement, is freakish and потаённо leave traces on a canvas of the artist. Time silently addresses to the master inquiry.
The end of a century of the past - the beginning present ascertained weariness of a postmodernism in which EVERYTHING has been admissible, and any Text became the World in which settled симулякры, allocated инфернальными features. Phantoms of death - the author, the subject and object of creative dialogue, true, - it seemed, have for a long time lodged on pages of novels, on the telescreen, on canvases of artists. Интертекстуальность emphasized исчерпанность searches of the modern language, new dialogue with itself and with eternity - all was, was, was. The existential loneliness of the person who has lost in time … became obvious
Alexander Ivanov - very modern and duly artist. Its{his} painting is interesting to me for a long time. That not noticing, it{he} as it seems to me, has passed{has taken place} a complex{difficult} way of influences of a postmodern on its{his} handwriting. I saw, how themes of its{his} works varied колор, color. There were periods of citing and imitation and who avoids it{this}, painful searches of the language, crises and rises … However it is important, that Alexander Ivanov - the master who is being constant movement.
The postmodernist loneliness, the rationality of a stroke verified архитектоника of the image for the present are actively enough read on its{his} cloths. Переполненность plots, in the images, ideas, moods today becomes that объдиняющей road on which it{he} goes from a century of the past to a century new.
Theatrical allegorical meaning of life experience will successfully enough be recoded by Alexander Ivanov on language of the painting overcoming postmodernist безавторность and безадресность. The major feature of the present{true} art - an innuendo - all proves in its{his} works more distinctly{clearly}. Dispassionateness and остранённость picturesque language offers all to the spectator an opportunity of their decoding and correlation with own experience and the guessed validity. Here again not so it is important, that is represented in a picture - the person, the machine{car}, a landscape, city …
The structure of picturesque space is organized by the artist so, that forces to experience the possible{probable} way done by the invented character or a subject. Light effects, enchantling patches of light only emphasize dialectics of an image. Strange and melancholic наездница work « the Magic way » whether leaves{abandons} « city gold », whether sends on searches of other fairy tale, other cities. For me this work became a metaphor of creative searches of Alexander Ivanov last years.
Overcoming of a power field of a postmodernism today is expressed at it{him} at presence of original style which not only is recognized, but through it{him} appears through experience of subconscious search of the Ideal. The postmodernism is deprived original style, any ideal is alien to it{him}.
Alexander Ivanov manages to be kept in works on that rather unsteady side which separates the obvious citation from the original image, «красивость», more often trite see the hand-made articles exposed on sale in the center of any big city, from really aesthetically organized space of a canvas.
These important postulates are present at Alexander Ivanovs all works of last time. Not so important, on what it is riveted attention of the spectator - to Islands, not to audible dialogue of dwarfs work Conversation or to city which is not present on a card{map} … Except for the harmonized space, is always read secret, destiny, perhaps, the character or a subject.
Alexander Ivanov often draws the Avalon, which is fantastic-fantastic designs the spectator always sees from height of the birds flight. It is necessary to guess, who lonely Forgotten Left{abandoned} can occupy these locks costing{standing} in the middle of infinite ocean. Perhaps, in them there lives the artist Then it{he} ascertains the loneliness. Certainly, it only a guess not once visiting{attending} close{attentive} созерцателя of pictures of the artist which неосознанно speaks about itself even if represents something инфернальное and abstract.
Alexander Ivanovs works метафористичны though names of pictures sometimes give rise to opposite senses and аллюзии. « Machines{Cars} of dialogue » turn in certain essence of misunderstanding необщения, even tearing away and aversion to a gender attribute, more likely. Masks of passions and rest are turned to to themselves the senseless mechanisms which have got up on close and uncomfortable small houses, only fix sensation of loneliness, механистичности opportunities of dialogue, but its{his} full absence. Someone has told, that on the Earth there are only two nations - men and women. This work on them, about an eternal problem of misunderstanding and clothing of masks. The inscription in mysterious and nonexistent language only fixes emotion of emptiness and impossibility of an explanation and mutual understanding between them.
The motive of loneliness appearing in art концептах the author on many works, always, however, is interfaced{integrated} and to motive of hope. Let « City gold » or « City of dreams » are not populated by inhabitants exulting unjustly. The main thing, that always remains hope, that in these cities, on Alexander Ivanovs forgotten islands people, the best people to what also the master, and you, undoubtedly, concerns will lodge, the thoughtful spectator, will suffice whose imagination, that in « city gold » and a life to make joyful and happy.

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Ivanov Alexander Vasilevich was born on August, 23rd, 1953. He graduated the Dnepropetrovsk state university philological faculty in 1976 and the Ukrainian polygraphic institute faculty book schedules in 1989. Ivanov is a member of the international company Art without borders .
Lives in Dnepropetrovsk. Works in a genre of easel painting.
Since 1996 accepts active participation in regional and city art exhibitions.
Personal exhibitions in gallery Dyvosvit 1996, in gallery Excellent-Art 1997.
Took part in exhibitions in Moscow 2002, Kharkov 2003, Odessa 2005. Personal exhibitions in Kiev gallery Nef, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, 2004, Dnepropetrovsk the Dnepropetrovsk art museum, 2005.
Took part in a group exhibition of the Dnepropetrovsk artists in Odessa 2006.
Personal exhibition in gallery Bardzo, Dnepropetrovsk 2007.
Personal exhibition in gallery Creativity, Odessa 2007.
Personal exhibition in gallery CITY-ART, Dnepropetrovsk 2008. Takes part in the ukrainian art exhibition Picturesque podneperovie.
The international exhibition Artist-mirror-self-portrait, Krakow, Poland, 2008
The international exhibition Self-portrait, Âðîöëàâ, Poland, 2009
The international exhibition Reflection, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2009
The international exhibition Self-portrait Âðîöëàâ, Poland, 2009
The international exhibition Reflection Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Alexanders works are in private collections of Ukraine, the USA, France, Russia, Poland, Czechia....

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Emilio Merlina, , , Original Mixed Media, size_width{gold_incense_and_myrrh-1482509878.jpg} X
Original Mixed Media, 2016
52 x 54 cm (33.1 x 23.6)
Ukraine
Emilio Merlina, , , Original Mixed Media, size_width{gold_incense_and_myrrh-1482509878.jpg} X
Original Mixed Media, 2016
52 x 54 cm (33.1 x 23.6)
Antonio Murgia, , , Original Painting Acrylic, size_width{gratitude-1500876066.jpg} X
Original Acrylic Painting, 2016
100 x 100 x 4 cm (33.1 x 23.6)
Ukraine
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