Europa Series
Acts of transgressions have irreversible consequences, often tragic and senseless. They happen every day to everybody directly and indirectly. We live in times of perpetual conflict. By responding to it, art may have the potential to transcend its own artificiality and context.
The Europa Series attempts to confront the context, manifestation, impact and personalization of conflict, transgressions and violence. The series comprises of a number of oil paintings initially triggered by recent European conflicts. Its initial groundwork was based on figurative imagery that underwent a process of reduction and fragmentation through separation of the content. A painting resolved this way without explicitly invoked narrative, but affected by the physicality of the process may then present an ambiguous perspective on violence as an organized, aesthetically satisfactory abstraction, when transgressions and conflict are repressed within our cultural conditioning while seeking refuge in socially acceptable interpretations.
On a personal level, the act of applying paint with brush, knife, rag or hands is a physical activity with its inherent ambiguities and visceral connotations. At the same time our own physiological banality clashes with spiritual and mental alienation, as a constant variable of life.
Paradise Series
The series is inspired by Milton’s poem and T.S. Eliot select works. It concerns human isolation, the temptation of the physical and the carnal and attempts to find balance, moral and existential center and meaning. Human figure and its references may present themselves as potent vehicles to examine basic ontological questions. The figuration may beget symbolic connotations on personal level, as there is no narrative imposition. The emotional content does not exclusively define the work, though hopefully guides it toward clearer exposition.