Kosta Morr

My paintings are painted with deliberate carelessness in various cases. It can be abstract or figurative, but I like to see how colors and shapes fall on the canvas. Bringing the inner state to the outside, in silhouettes and colors, is my main task. I like semantic contrasts, when serious and frightening things are presented in a naive way, and something unimportant is adored and evoked for inspection.

I am inspired by all things strange and beautiful. Fascinating, primitive, and intentionally random. I am constantly searching for unusual combinations of colors, shapes, and symbols that give rise to new symbols or deeper feelings.

The most important thing for me is the viewer's inner state. What do they feel when they look at my paintings? This is the main question. How does the idea react? Does the viewer simply enjoy the color palette, as if listening to music?

The main message is a different internal state of a person. The idea is to shift the person into a new state that they like or fear.

My works are born by themselves. An idea pops into my head, which can only be gotten rid of in one way: by expressing it on canvas. Personally, it's a relief for me when I stop thinking about it and can calmly consider what happened.

Education:

2010 - 2015 Ukrainian Institute of Television, Radio Broadcasting and Press.
Art education photography, drawing, painting, production.

2018 current School of Contemporary Art Kiev
Education in painting, theory of contemporary art.

Exhibitions:

Believe in Ukraine Bilous Gallery (Austria) Sep 8, 2022 - Sep 21, 2022.
Gallery 7+2 RA (Ukraine) May 24, 2020 - June 7, 2020.
Collection and more RA Gallery (Ukraine) September 6, 2019 - September 26, 2019.
Adult Experience Institute of Contemporary Art (Ukraine) January 20, 2019 - February 20, 2019.

Artistic influences:

Guillaume Sasnal
Gerhard Richter
Andy Warhol

Keywords:

People, pop art, expressionism, minimalism, folk, animals.