Rain (2024) Original Oil Painting by Margarita Ivanova

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.
The past is not a perception that has lost its intensity. This is the repeated repetition of images fixed in our memory. We rely on the past. We identify ourselves and others through our memory. To learn is to learn something new or to recognize something old? By remembering, we anticipate the future. The eyes of the girl in the painting are in the shadow of the hat, but her gaze is clear.
The work is done on premium quality linen canvas. The ends are a continuation of the painting. Gallery stretch canvas on a stretcher, 3 cm thick.
The painting has repeatedly participated in and won prizes at international exhibitions.

Materials used:

oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 80 x 90 x 3cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: People and portraits