Artistic Statement

Making art is the most important thing for me and helps me to overcome failures and obstacles. It is the way of expressing the storm of ideas and the opportunity to surf the space that is different from anything outside in this universe. I go into the “secret workshop” of painting and there where I am lost I find myself.

Love and a research mindset drive my work. I always feel the need for exploration with the analysis: however, compared to any other field painting is the realm where it happens not only based on rational thinking but also irrational intuitive freedom that gives vent to feelings and acts on the subconscious level very near to supernatural. As an artist I do not explore the outer world though I use elements such as landscapes or images and faces that do not belong to particular people but are the fruit of my imagination, the purpose of those elements is to explore myself in the search of something yet unknown but existing and understanding the principles of the essence of the human being presence in the universe. It is the constant search of “ikigai” or “être de raison”. Making art is a kind of sacred process for me.

My first and foremost favorite medium of work is oil on canvas. Despite having some experiments in performance, kintsugi art, decorative art, and video art, the first place for me comes to painting on canvas with oil colors. I sometimes might mix tempera and acrylic under or over the oil layers but it happens rarely exclusively in case I need to achieve some particular color or texture and tempera helps, or acrylic works. While using brushes is not the only tool, I use palette knives, sponges, canvas, at a time some coarse material or whatever will help me to get the particular “stroke” I need.

Even though art reviewers find different influences of Swiss, French, English, or Italian schools in my art, my major inspiration and influence comes from the tradition of Italian Painting. The creative process is not void of studies, and observations; however, the approach is rather starting on canvas and working on the composition basically on that very canvas rather than trying some other options making studies on different canvases. I prefer to keep the emotion that makes me work on it on the same canvas.

Some artworks are born from nowhere, I just stop in front of the white canvas and it starts. However, the important thing is the people who surround me and with whom I spend time. The most fruitful periods are- I call them- the “when I am in love” stage. The periods when I love or do not feel love are the worst. I never finish an artwork at that stage, though, the artwork can start from that very stage. I feel very sensitive towards the things happening in the universe and canvas is the place where I can be “alternative universe”.

I intend to send a very clear message to the viewers and lovers of my art: my art is to be void of identity and be as human as possible. It does not have gender, race, nationality, or any other sign according to which one can relate to it but general human concepts such as eternity, mortality, love, suffering, and a search for “real” and “true”. I aim to make art that will trigger the desire to find some reason to live a happier life and do kind things to each other. I hope viewers will take away from experiencing my art the love that I share with the artwork in the process of creation and the energy that will bring them to life, heal, and make them happy.