Sveta Yavorsky

STANISLAV PLUTENKO SVETA YAVORSKY STANISLAV PLUTENKO ZOE BENBOW

Sveta Yavorsky was born in Russia. She studied art and architecture at the Moscow University of Architecture before moving to London in 1992 as a fine artist artist. Her architectural training became an inspiration for geometric patterns within figurative compositions, and developed by closely observing Kandinsky’s theory of colour.

Yavorsky’s worlds are arranged in tea leaves, swirling up some truly fantastic tales that merge and emerge like Scheherazade’s ’ neverending stories. The style embraces the semi-abstract method of composition that Malevich termed the ‘additional element' of painting. The canvases are like glowing coals in their red-hot p , magic g carpet p p patterns embroider creatures that transparencies, swim underwater. Perforations hang like flies stuck in amber, whilst spectral figures melt beside their stained glass horses.

Like a palimpsest, here and there are traces of old faces, embalmed on waxy paper ruins. ruins The moth-wing moth wing fragility of dusty landscapes surrounds bejewelled figures with tracing paper hands.

Silvery machinery parts float like x-rays across boiling jam skies, a bright blue Bambi emerges like a lantern. These paintings are parchments torn from ancient manuscripts with their metallic lustre and d iinky k camouflage. fl Th They b buzz with ith corall bi birds, d azure tigers ti and d mohawked horses. Yavorsky’s transparent animals are mottled and marbled with pale green veins, they appear like watercolours brushed over oil and gilded. Elegant, regal and illustrative, the works could have been made by y Klimt wearing g night-vision g goggles, g gg resembling the strange love child of Rothko and Banksy.

Here, the contrast between the inner and outer world has been placed in careful balance, the subjects metamorphose into each other and their backgrounds backgrounds. In Yavorsky’s Yavorsky s work work, Time is suspended, suspended an hourglass left lying on its side. Outside these windows, time is still dissolving grain by grain.

Beginning 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper

Battle Raziel 100 x 71 cm Oil on canvas, 145 x 145 cm Pencil, coal on paper 2010

Golden Knight Oil on canvas, 150 x 75 cm 2010

Field 2 detail Oil on canvas, 100 x 195 cm 2011

Ganymede Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2011

Triton Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2011

Europa Oil on canvas,180 x 95 cm 2011

Dione detail 1 Oil on canvas, 180 x 195 cm 2011

Dione detail 2 Oil on canvas, 180 x 195 cm 2011

Coast Bird Bird Town Town Sky I TownBird 110 x 160 170 170110 cmx100 170x cm cm Oil110 onxcanvas, 100 cm Oil onon canvas Mixed media Oil on linen canvas 2011

Quicksilver Oil on canvas, 190 x 100 cm 2013

Sulphur Oil on canvas, 185 x 100 cm 2013

Azoth Oil on canvas, 185 x 100 cm 2013

Antimony Oil on canvas, 190 x 100 cm 2013

Evocation Oil on canvas, 185 x 100 cm 2013

Magus Oil on canvas, 160 x 90 cm 2013

Adept Oil on canvas canvas, 160 x 90 cm 2013

Apprentice Oil on canvas canvas, 160 x 90 cm 2013

Dissolution Oili on canvas, 95 x 180 cm 2013

Separation Oil on canvas, 95 9 x 180 80 cm 2013

1st Horseman Oili on canvas, 100 x 190 cm 2013

2nd Horseman Oili on canvas, 100 x 190 cm 2013

1st Horseman (fragment) Purple Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

1st Horseman (fragment) Maroon Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

1st Horseman (fragment) Blue Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

1st Horseman (fragment) Red Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

Horse 1 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

Horse 2 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

Horse 3 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

Horse 4 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm 2013

Winged Leopard Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm 2013

Winged Tiger Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2013

Winged Panther Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2013

Tree Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2013

Knight Oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm 2013

S l t d Exhibitions Selected E hibiti

2013 Fine Arts Exhibition "Lucid Dreams" - Moorhouse Art and Hay Hill Gallery, London

2011 Moon Mages, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2010 Balman Gallery, Gallery Newcastle 2009 Winter exhibition, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2007 Mysteries, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2006 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London g Contemporary, p y London 2005 Cadogan 2005 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2004 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2004 New Year Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2003 Cadogan Contemporary, London 2002 Bruton B t Street St t Gallery, G ll London L d 2002 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2001 Cricket Hill Associates, New York 2000 Millenium Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1999 New Year Exhibition, Exhibition Cadogan Contemporary, Contemporary London 1997 Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1996 Galerie Mikael, Strasbourg 1996 Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1996 Gallium Calerie,, Antibes,, France 1995 Cricket Hill Associates, New Yowk 1993 Cartoon Gallery, London 1992 Group Exhibition, Malaya Gruzinskaya, Moscow 1989 Moscow Days in Madrid 1989 989 Young Artist ti t Exhibition, hibiti Amsterdam t d

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