Artworks by Margarita Ivanova

Hello! My name is Margarita. I am a professional artist. Do not hesitate to write to me, I am always open to dialogue, ready to provide you with discounts and work on individual orders.
Painting and art in general has always been an integral part of my life. After graduating from the Architectural Institute in 2010, I worked by profession. But painting soon gained the upper hand and has been my only profession and practice since 2019. Since then, more than 200 of my works have been in collectors all over the world. The theoretical platform of my artistic practice is metamodernity or new sincerity. In this context, I define my main method by the term "oscillation". Exploring the fluctuations between the inner and the outer, the personal and the collective, I turn to the modernist problems of the medium. However, I am more interested in the system of perception itself, rather than the physical embodiment of the image. In my works, I focus on the performative symbolic structure of painting. I draw on the experience of Michel Foucault, on his analysis of the renewed Impressionist relationship between painting as an object and painting as an illusory volume. I am looking for ways to articulate the ambivalence of the very nature of the image – framed and simultaneously revealed in virtual layers of consciousness. I am trying to mark the midpoint of the oscillation, which is localized precisely in optics, in perception. I don't paint portraits, I don't try to formulate a question or an answer, but I create a reason to doubt the usual interpretation, the Lacanian Real. In this, I am guided by the Magritte iteration of surrealism, with its visionary entry into the logic of conceptual art and even further into the process of oscillation. I reject traditional aesthetic gradations, creating a painting-an object with which the viewer independently comes into visual contact.