On August 12, the gallery of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan, "Ular" will host the opening of the exhibition of Latvian artist Karine Paronyanc. The exhibition will feature canvases from different creative periods of the artist – from purely decorative works to visual manifestos. The exhibition will be available to visit until September 10.
Karine Paronyanc remains true to traditional painting techniques, deliberately avoiding the use of auxiliary digital methods. Her artistic philosophy – "Art with BIO tag" – is a play with a sign, which signifies product quality and the creator’s careful attitude to nature and its rhythms. This concept allows you to take a fresh look at common phrases like “draw from nature,” “learn from nature,” and “understand the beauty of life.”
The central themes of Karine’s work are the cycle of life and its multi-variability, as well as the possibility of harmonious coexistence of the environment and human civilization. The artist’s works combine multiple botanical fantasies, floral and nature imagery, and the straightforwardness and structure of human reasoning. In all of Karine's paintings, one leitmotif can be traced – the will to live, the equal aspiration of living nature, and the human mind reaching upward and into the distance.
The name of the exhibition itself – “Reborn from the Ashes…” – refers the viewer to the artist’s unique approach: many of the exhibited works are painted on old sheets, tablecloths, and embroidered fabrics, primed using old technology with the addition of ashes from bonfires. Painting on canvases made in this way is especially cozy and intimate: it creates a special relationship between the author and her creation. A sheet is both a symbol of human existence and a very intimate household item: a newborn is wrapped in sheets, the sacrament of love and sleep occurs on them, the body of the deceased is wrapped in a ritual sheet – a shroud. By covering these canvases with ashes – ashes of trees, paper, objects of human life – the artist draws a metaphorical parallel with the principles of Life: the birth of the new from the old, the search for a new significance in the ashes of bygone meanings and images.
One of the recurring motifs in the artist's works is white lace traveling from canvas to canvas, a symbol of man's painstaking labor in his quest for beauty. One of the central parts of Karine's work is the ornament and its connection with folk art, manual labor, nationality, and tradition in the deepest sense of the word.
The artist's canvases, like these lace ornaments, are "woven" by the needle of life – this is an image that appears in almost every work: sometimes explicitly, casting a shadow on the surface of the canvas, and sometimes in the form of a coded symbol. The white thread itself in Karine's works is the line of fate, the neurography of subtle emotional states. Sometimes the thread builds nests, and sometimes it gathers into a tight and tense knot, pulled together in search of answers to the main questions of the universe
The culmination of this idea can be considered a series of works, "Birds of Paradise": in them, on a gray canvas covered with ash, bright, mobile, light forms appear, echoing the rebirth from the ashes of the mythical Phoenix bird. Guided by the artist's hand, a whole kaleidoscope of new colored fragments is born from old fabric and ashes, forming into dreams of ideal beauty and longing for a fairy tale with a definite good ending, a symbol of hope and a new, better life.
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