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G.Demirev
Artist Statement
It is extraordinary difficult to explain the process we relate to our professional
realization -especially when it is about such a complicated and many-sided part of
human activity like art. As a matter of fact, everything is individual and just there is
the charm of pursuit with drawing in general, but the opportunity to be yourself, the
opportunity to express yourself in a universal language, the opportunity to create and
destroy your own worlds - all that gives the satisfaction which can be compared to very
few things in this world. If I have to define in some curt way the works I make I would
call them just “another world”. This is a place of strange rituals with no gravitation, a
world where everyone can find a favorite personage, a place where we stare with
astonishment to the starry sky and find our constellations owing to the insight and the
subconscious impulses. The works are "strange"- combining shapes stylized up to a
sign, flying letters, objects known unto pain. An enigmatic world that invites you to
puzzle it out like a new just discovered fairytale someone has passed in his childhood
God knows how. The pure colors / sometimes childish naive/ allure, the personages -
strange - reminding about something familiar. The chamber influence of the space gives
the feeling that everything happens at a stage, and the staging has been directed and
played by the imagination of the onlooker himself. There are many things that provoke
me - ancient myths, legends - written and told, a pattern on a museum exhibit. The
real, instinctive accumulation of historical events and artifacts in the consciousness, the
need of historical support and the realized idea that nothing in this world is in vain but
has remained in some way in each of us and is regenerated in time. Far be it from me to
create illustrations of concrete legends - here comes the memory, the feeling, the
allusion - to this effect the names of the works are purely symbolical - they just push
the onlooker into a specific direction - all the rest is creation of his brain.
I prefer to work with oil paints - they give the opportunity for longer processing /for
they dry more slowly/, which should not be neglected, especially when one emphasizes
on a more detailed working up the spots. The bases are exceptionally smooth /they
resemble paper/. The bases I use are canvas and a board - there is some difference
between them /as for me/ and hence the attitude to the material is different. The work
on canvas requires a more precise development of a preliminary design and a more
careful laying the saturated tones, having in mind that the composition has been
specified in advance and it only has to be carried out in material. On the board I work
without preliminary preparation - everything is done at one go - to the letter in some
hours and it means the works are more expressive, filled with more emotion and nerve.
The question about the frequent change in the way of expression does not exist for me -
in this regard I rely on intuition. After gathering impressions things provoke the
changes themselves. The tonalities I use are also purely intuitive selected - sometimes
muted to the lowest vibration of a particular tone, sometimes chatty, frisky like a child
drawing. I don’t protest either against reflection and routine or against impulse and
whim -and I do not recommend it to anybody - we should not forget that the author is
responsible for his works mostly to himself , and the others’ approval is something
relative - all the same, some specific emotional mood and superstructure for the
perception of a concrete author is necessary, and this is not always possible, but this is
another topic.
G. Demirev