Salvavit
Name of the exhibition is a latin equivalent for REDEEMED. The main omnipresent theme is the relationship of an individual to the society and details in plurality.Moments of being both detached and equalized. Arranging one face next to another makes seemingly tight crowd individual.
- When I paint a portrait I strive to also make it in some sense universal.00:00:45.828
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- When you paint a portrait of someone, a connection is automatically created.00:00:54.477
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- So, in a way, any portrait is universal.00:01:00.015
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- It allows me a wider interpretative context.00:01:03.660
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- I use it to comment on socio-cultural events,00:01:09.574
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- situations, or personal and inter-human relationships.00:01:16.883
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- Sometimes I draw on the idea of the "black sheep",00:01:24.662
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- which isn't a clearly positive or negative figure.00:01:28.092
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- This idea came to me during walks in country side.00:01:33.018
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- I once came across a huge herd of sheep which stopped and surrounded me.00:01:42.791
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- My paintings are about stopping and meditating on a situation.00:01:47.907
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- They also can ponder whether to continue with the herd.00:01:53.230
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- But this already verges on poetry.00:02:03.199
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- For a while now I've been using airbrush technique.00:02:08.496
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- Originally, airbrushing was used to retouch photographs00:02:14.471
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- and that's how I use it.00:02:19.592
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- I want the paintings to feel like photographs.00:02:22.192
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- This impression is stronger in smaller formats.00:02:27.221
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- The base layer is also adapted to the photographic feel.00:02:31.257
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- The surface is smooth00:02:36.220
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- and you can't tell immediately that it's canvas.00:02:40.003