"I was drawn to simultaneity as a value. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways, but I think the cognitive dissonance that arises when negotiating the facts that occur at the same time is productive and worthwhile. Perhaps the main simultaneity—the truth inherent in life experience—is cruelty and love, violence and beauty. ”
sanya kantarovsky
Sanya Kantarovsky was born in Moscow, Russia in 982 and currently lives and works in New York. He studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
good host
woodblock print on washi **
18 x 13 inches
Sanya Kantarovsky's paintings feature gloomy, melancholy figures posing alone or gathered together against an abstract and surreal background. Humorous and existential anxieties infuse him with colorful scenes that alternately focus on lovers, mothers, children, and strangers.
Sanya's most famous work is his figurative paintings, which have changed dramatically in terms of pictorial application and stylization. His paintings evoke the feeling of an uneasy inner monologue, with figures stared at, exposed, poked or scooped with medicine. They interact with each other, as well as the edges of the canvas itself, testing their given body and the range of a given frame.
kompleks
oil and watercolor on canvas
75 x 100 inches
His painting style is full of roughness and distortion of brushstrokes, creating a unique visual effect. Target imaginary characters who are often plagued by various psychological and physical discomforts. On the stage of painting, the discordant frequencies of ** and rejection compete for the attention of the audience.
nobody knew so well, how to frighten miss cl**el,2019
oil and watercolor on linen
16 x 12 inches
He seems to craft dark and ironic images through specific visual annotations. These tactile themes are transformed through the most subtle occasions of line and color, washed over, obscured, piled up and blurred by constant agitation. The narrative articulation remains elusive, and a bystander is prompted to enter these dreamlike scenes through a bunch of simultaneous events – past and present, attraction and repulsion, thin and thick.
12 inch pianis
His works show emotional elements such as loneliness, anxiety, desire and contradiction, as well as reflections on human relationships and social issues, which are metaphorical and symbolic, encouraging the viewer to make personal interpretations and reflections.
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