Eyes contact, 2022

Margarita Ivanova  

Education 

Academy of Architecture and Arts 2004-2010Painting and art in general have always been an integral part of my life. After graduating from the university with a degree in Architecture, I worked by profession. But gradually painting came to the fore. And since 2019, this has become my main and then my only occupation. Since then, more than 500 works have been in private collections around the world.

Artist Statement

I work with various mediums according to the principle of palimpsest – multiple overlays of pictorial or graphic layers. The theoretical platform of my artistic practice is metamodernizm or new sincerity. In this context, I define my main method by the term "oscillation". Exploring the fluctuations between the inner and the outer, the personal and the collective, I turn to the modernist problematic of the medium. However, I am more interested in the system of perception itself, rather than the physical embodiment of the image. In my works, I focus on the performative symbolic structure of painting. I draw on the experience of Michel Foucault, on his analysis of the renewed Impressionist relationship between painting as an object and painting as an illusory volume. I am looking for ways to articulate the ambivalence of the very nature of the image – framed and simultaneously revealed in virtual layers of consciousness. I am trying to mark the midpoint of the oscillation, which is localized precisely in optics, in perception. I am not painting portraits in the usual sense of the word, but rather creating a reason to doubt the usual interpretation, the Lacanian Real. In this, I am guided by the Magritte iteration of surrealism, with its visionary entry into the logic of conceptual art and even further into the process of oscillation. I reject traditional aesthetic gradations, creating a painting-an object with which the viewer independently comes into visual contact.

Exhibition activities

International Art Fair Rostov, Rostov-on-Don, 2021 
International exhibition Human Nature Art Gallery Colors of Humanity, France 2021 
International Exhibition of Figurative Art Light space and time Art Gallery 2022 
International Art Fair ART WORLD Nizhny Novgorod 2023 
International Art Fair Artcontact, Istanbul, Turkey 2023 
Elvira International Exhibition, Bodrum, Turkey 2023
International Art Fair World art Dubai, Dubai, UAE 2024 
Thessaloniki International Art Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece 2024 
International Art Fair Art Russia, Moscow 2025
International Art Fair World art Dubai, Dubai, UAE 2025 
International Art Fair Art Russia Classics, Moscow 2025
International Art Fair Art Russia, Moscow 2026
International Art Fair Artcontact, Istanbul, Turkey 2026 
International Art Fair World art Dubai, Dubai, UAE 2026