2023-05-26 08:34:01
Of Russian origin, Tatiana Ivchenkova, painter and illustrator, has lived and worked in Paris since 2010. She trained in artistic practice in her hometown, Rostov-sur-le-Don, before continuing in France. Doctor in art history, she presented a thesis entitled “the impossible face”, in which she points to the erasure of the human face in modern and contemporary Western painting, in connection with the imprint of totalitarianism and terror. A jack-of-all-trades artist, she has a great mastery of many techniques: oil painting, watercolour, oil or dry pastel, colored pencils…
The works published in number 278 are portraits, one of his favorite subjects. They are mostly anonymous people, encountered in his wanderings, or subjects from photographs. “The face has interested me since childhood. It is for me the most important part of a person, the one that carries almost all the information regarding his state of mind and his personality. When a pose, an expression of the face or the eyes, a grimace, a nose, a hairstyle attracts me, I start to draw. The result is often unexpected, even for me, and sometimes has almost nothing to do with the model,” explains Tatiana Ivchenkova. The more the viewer looks, the more the subject reveals itself, both the same and changing. “The face moves, changes all the time. Expressions change. The face shows everything and nothing at the same time, it remains an enigma. It is said that one does not know oneself, how to know others? Is it me, this face I see in the mirror? Or a stranger? I leave it to the viewer to draw the missing details. And every time he looks at them, they won’t be the same. »
A gallery of portraits, like so many encounters, disconcerting, amusing, strong…
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