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"Mama! (Portrait of Alex)". 100x140cm. Oil on canvas. 2022.

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Well, here is nothing glamorous or funny behind the story about this painting. It is about the outbreak of the massive war in Ukraine on 24.02.22. I remember that around that time I was painting a series of pictures for an upcoming exhibition. When my best friend and I checked news on 24th of February 2022, we both we shocked to the core. My friend's family lives in Ukraine and rejected to move out of the country. I really think that the first thought my friend had was about his mom (who i know personally and she is a wonderful woman). This painting is about feeling helpless in a severely dangerous situation in which lives of your family members are not protected by any means anymore. It felt like everything crashed, the mind has fractured into pieces, there is no harmony neither in mind nor in body. Personally, the outbreak of the war shocked me so much that i lost all sense of color for quite some time. My head could not comprehend how should I paint anything anymore? Painting did not feel right. Nothing excited me. Everything was desaturated. Therefore, i included the approaching pale (white'ish) shock wave on the painting approaching from the left to the right. This wave is right about to hit my best friend as well. So, i can say that this work is also about immediacy of shock. The painting represents those milliseconds during which your inner collection of rules and your piece are breaking apart. While my best friend is checking the news on his PC early in the morning, his physical representation falls into three decoupled projections:" nervous system/mental embodiment" (colourful mess close the shock wave), "physical body" in grey tones and "echo" behind the figure in grey. The whole composition of the painting should remind one of a banknote (bill). I think you can imagine why?

Description

"Mama! (Portrait of Alex)". 100x140cm. Oil on canvas. 2022.

.

Well, here is nothing glamorous or funny behind the story about this painting. It is about the outbreak of the massive war in Ukraine on 24.02.22. I remember that around that time I was painting a series of pictures for an upcoming exhibition. When my best friend and I checked news on 24th of February 2022, we both we shocked to the core. My friend's family lives in Ukraine and rejected to move out of the country. I really think that the first thought my friend had was about his mom (who i know personally and she is a wonderful woman). This painting is about feeling helpless in a severely dangerous situation in which lives of your family members are not protected by any means anymore. It felt like everything crashed, the mind has fractured into pieces, there is no harmony neither in mind nor in body. Personally, the outbreak of the war shocked me so much that i lost all sense of color for quite some time. My head could not comprehend how should I paint anything anymore? Painting did not feel right. Nothing excited me. Everything was desaturated. Therefore, i included the approaching pale (white'ish) shock wave on the painting approaching from the left to the right. This wave is right about to hit my best friend as well. So, i can say that this work is also about immediacy of shock. The painting represents those milliseconds during which your inner collection of rules and your piece are breaking apart. While my best friend is checking the news on his PC early in the morning, his physical representation falls into three decoupled projections:" nervous system/mental embodiment" (colourful mess close the shock wave), "physical body" in grey tones and "echo" behind the figure in grey. The whole composition of the painting should remind one of a banknote (bill). I think you can imagine why?