Artist Information:
Christina Mitrentse
london,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Jan 2007
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Artist Statement:
STATEMENT CHRISTINA MITRENTSE
My artistic practice is diverse encompassing painting, word, objects, materials and scale. Deriving from a broader interest on semiotics of display as well as a quasi-science pictorial exploration, where the discourse of science is identified as a cultural significance and the creators’ position is based on his perpetual curiosity about exploring questions on perception and different possibilities on remapping the natural world.
In the series of still life drawings, the visual metaphor appears in order to reorganize the singular archaeology of visual memory as a form of receptive interpretation. Using the drawing medium to introduce a rational element in the work. But here, drawings’ relationship with the hand-made, physical properties of the medium is clear; the work is problematised by my shifting touch and the experiments deliberately rendered pseudo-epistemological. While the immensity of natural occurrences is usually enlarged or reduced to an unfamiliar scale, suggesting the formulation of the banal and the cosmic, they offer a sense of cosmic companionship with others and the ecstatic view that details of nature are a perfect miniature cosmos worthy of adulation.
Similarly the realistic technique is counter-balanced with the allegory of the image, in which the...
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My artistic practice is diverse encompassing painting, word, objects, materials and scale. Deriving from a broader interest on semiotics of display as well as a quasi-science pictorial exploration, where the discourse of science is identified as a cultural significance and the creators’ position is based on his perpetual curiosity about exploring questions on perception and different possibilities on remapping the natural world.
In the series of still life drawings, the visual metaphor appears in order to reorganize the singular archaeology of visual memory as a form of receptive interpretation. Using the drawing medium to introduce a... | |
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