Biography
Currently, I’m working on a series of abstractions named “sites of memory, when memories become a mental abstraction”. These paintings are focused more on the material and intuition. Working in both paint and collage, I try to approach various aspects of painting by combining them with feelings, my interests, my surrounding and the world. By embedding elements from my daily life - feelings and personal memories, I’m once again producing a mapping of existence. The lines that separate us from one point to another can be read as a map, an abstract route.
Working on sheets of paper, canvas or directly on the wall, dashing off lines and forms, in a nearly impossible attempt to capture the intensity of the moment, of me and of my surrounding. The use of disregarded materials and the concept of recollection, fragmentation and reconstruction have become a key in the work.
Even now that paint has lost his prominent role in my work I still feel related to the fact of being a painter. My approach to the work is still similar: in a similar way as before I’m building up my work as of I’m still a figurative oil painter. But my relationship to the work is very different. It’s more intense and there is less distance. I use to work with a clear idea but now it’s a growing process. Working on several paintings at the same time allows each painting the indispensable period of rest it needs before being reworked and adjusted afterwards again.
The act and the movement al together with the substance both play an important role in these works which are built upon different layers of tape, charcoal, oil paint, code language, spray bomb and paper magazine. I am also aware of the element of chance and I try to deal with it consciously.
The element of chance is manifested mainly in the composition by removing layers and creating new ones.
