We are the Gods (2017) Original Acrylic Painting by Tetiana Cherevan

One of the talents good artists possess is the ability to improvise and listen to the hints of Life. They know the precious value of Chance, when certain seemingly insignificant details interfere with the creative process, finally guiding it in the totally opposite, new direction. And this is the case with many works of the Ukrainian painter Tetiana Cherevan, as they seem to evolve from the intriguing life coincidences and purely intuitive u. 

The featured series of canvases was born during the artist’s journey to Ko Samui, a Thai island. During the first visit, in 2014, Tetiana and her family came across an abandoned art gallery. The local artist, who had once owned it, died long ago, yet they met and made friends with his granddaughter. During a new trip to Samui in 2017, Tetiana revisited the place to discover that the gallery was in an awful state, with a leaking roof, crumbling walls, and paintings eaten by termites. The artist decided to take and use some of the damaged canvases in her new project. Such a symbolic gesture of giving the paintings ‘a second life’ becomes even more eloquent considering the images that originally were on them: all of the pieces initially were a curious sample of the zen calligraphic motif, known as ensō. Ensō is a hand-drawn circle, which for the Buddhists became a universal symbol of integrity, enlightenment, the cyclical nature of existence, as well as a visualization of Void: as a the Heart Sutra reads, “Form is void and void is form.”

This artwork was presented at the 2020 Bangkok Art Exhibition at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).

Materials used:

acrylic, ink

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 100 x 100cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Illustrative
• Subject: People and portraits