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Margarita Ivanova

2023 • Armenia • Oil on Canvas

31 x 31 in

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Margarita Ivanova

Armenia

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Medium : Oil on Canvas
Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 31.5x31.5in

About this artwork

In my work I focus on the performative symbolic structure of painting. I draw on the experience of Michel Foucault, on his analysis of the relationship between painting as an object and painting as an illusory volume, renewed by the impressionists. I am looking for ways to articulate the ambivalence of the very nature of the image – enclosed in a frame and simultaneously revealed into virtual layers of consciousness. I strive to mark the midpoint… of oscillation, which is localized precisely in optics, in perception.
I do not paint portraits, I do not try to formulate a question or an answer, but I create a reason to doubt the usual interpretation, the Lacanian Real. In this I focus on Magritte’s iteration of surrealism, with its visionary entry into the logic of conceptual art and even further into the process of oscillation. I discard traditional aesthetic gradations, creating a painting-object with which the viewer independently comes into visual contact.

Margarita Ivanova

Armenia

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Group shows participant
Established Artist
Solo shows participant
Featured in gallery curations
Works on commission

« Art is the key to understanding the world. By creating a new one, we make it possible to doubt the existing systems, thereby expanding the boundaries of our soul. »

Margarita Ivanova is an artist based in Russia whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and in the United Kingdom. She cites metamodernism and new sincerity as being the theoretical plaform for her aritsitc practice. Ivanova most often employs acrylics and oils on canvas in the creation of her distinctive figurative works.

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