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Pear. Venus
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Pear. Venus
Pear. Venus

Pear. Venus

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W 70.00cm x H 95.00cm x D 2.00cm

USD $4,500.00

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  • About this Pear. Venus

    Detail

    Medium

    Painting (Oil painting)

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2019

    Sign

    Artists' signature on the front of the canvas

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    My project "Pears" explores aspects of anthropomorphizing optics. I analyze the plasticity, formal qualities of the image and simultaneously actualize the legacy of the perception of the human figure, namely the female nude.

    On the one hand, I develop and articulate the problem of the objectification of the female body that contemporary art has inherited from its historical predecessors. However, I turn to an ironic manner of representation, contextualizing the inherited givenness and reinterpreting it in a logic of postirony, of metamodern easy lightness.

    The pear as a subject of pictorial study is as historical as the nude. By constructing a metaphorical synthesis of the two figurative images, I emphasize the inexhaustible strength and vulnerability, the beauty and simplicity of the nude body. In this way, I translate the substantial critique of representation into an experience of aesthetic and ideological reinterpretation that is open to possible readings and conclusions, that is not stuffed with the dominant logic of beauty. I shift and defragment this logic and move it away from toxic contextuality

  • About this artist

    Kateryna Ivonina

    Kateryna Ivonina

    United States of America

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    Concept

    In my artistic practice, I bring to life "eternal" questions, which are contextualised in current cultural circumstances and through the framework of my personal experience. I am interested in the form, figure and act of self-identification, self-consciousness of both the entire human specie and the individual thinking being.
    Identity is a fundamentally questionable entity, which from a correlationist, Cartesian perspective looks like an unsolvable puzzle. Therefore, as an artist, I turn to the logic of the phenomenologist and seek to discover the features of human identity in the reflection of the optics through which we look at the world of things and phenomena. The anthropomorphisation of non-human forms of life, the narrativisation of what we see, is always an experience of distortion, a sign of blind anthropocentrism. But by deconstructing this experience, we can find an answer to the question of who we are through our intentions, projections, memories and delusions.
    It is optics that is particularly important to me as an artist. I create my works at the level of the gaze, of perception - tangible and intangible all at once, always somewhere in between, in the midway, both corporeal and imaginary, real and illusionary, abstract and figurative.

    Here is the basic logic that underlies my artistic practice: nature influences the human being, their creative power and their capacity for self-consciousness. Humans in turn, being under such influence, observe and interpret nature. So the transformations and interpretations of natural forms in human creative and scientific practices are both the source and the consequence of that interaction that is embedded in our genome and that sprouts in our culture. It changes forms and contents, but remains faithful to this dual and balanced pattern of perception and influence. This structure is confusing and bewildering. But at the same time, it gives us the opportunity to examine individual facets and traits of fluid, performative identities through juxtaposition, co-configuration, correlation.I work with visual semiotics and use it as a navigation system - a complex, multilevel construction of the visible and assembled universe, as if reconstructed by humans from elements of tradition, ancestral memory, symbols, avatars and fragments of large and small narratives, from recollection and "peeking" into the future.
    I find an opportunity to disperse, to deconstruct visual culture as a metaphorical body that influences and at the same time is influenced by both human beings and nature in this mosaic construction of the perception summary expressed in symbols, signs, codes.

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