Crosses

The series of works made by Svetlana Schmidt during her residency at Milan is a good place to think more deeply about some distinctions between different understandings of forms. Her masterful use of different media and the sophisticated colours that informs her artistic process, it’s content, and most of all its abiding sense of the complexity of the mind’s processing of its moods and understandings.

Shifts of scale, doubling, reflection, rhythmic repetition or surprising juxtapositions to urge us to look with our eyes wide open. She is best known for creating big multi color paintings with psychedelic shapes and twisted geometries. Her mixed abstraction are scrupulous studies on beauty of elementary singularities. She applies cosmogonic methodology of creation – where small elementary particles in conjunction give birth to new forms and senses. Subjects under study are out of realm of simple and precise definitions, and fallout to extra-scientific space. Artist translates the subjects in visual form that under-run transformation through sensual experience.

Svetlana does not create the universal definitions, nor insist on the eternal fixation of the moment, allowing the form to develop and transform further, as she leaves her works without boundaries of frames or final elements. In reality, the key concepts in his work are visual constructions and a material concreteness as a form of abstraction. Almost as though it’s a question of a personal symbolism stemming from the artist’s position vis à vis the psychology of viewing. Those are kind of mandalas, that not to be destroyed, but rather to be transformed or incorporated into something new. She has made a refreshing contribution to the phenomenon of looking.