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alex kanevsky , special issue
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Alex Kanevsky
Alex Kanevsky Interview with Neil Plotkin
http://paintingperceptions.com
/interview-with-alex-kanevsky/
http://paintingperceptions.com/interview-with-alex-kanevsky/
Alex Kanevsky: Some Paintings In No P a r t i c u l a r S t y l e a t H o l l i s Ta g g a r t G a l l e r i e s presents new work from this virtuosic artist, confirming his remarkable ability to surprise and intrigue. Like the unreliable nature of memory and the imprecise atmosphere of poetry, Kanevsky’s multilayered works provide more questions than answers. These paintings combine abstraction and figuration in layered, painterly compositions in which the artist strives to push the viewer into narrative engagement with the work. Across the more than twenty new paintings in this exhibition, Kanevsky makes experimental forays into new stylistic territory but remains true to his signature focus on the figure in abstract space. The works in this exhibition offer glimpses into exquisitely rendered spaces and hauntingly unfamiliar narratives. Their beautifully handled surfaces shimmer and shift, refusing to settle into one definitive interpretation. By leaving generous space for ambiguity, the paintings instead act as mirrors, reflecting narratives brought by the viewer. Kanevsky’s imagined landscapes and imprecise interiors question the relationship between material and subject by allowing scenes to materialize while maintaining the primacy of paint itself. Kanevsky feels a deep connection to art history, and particularly to the old masters of portraiture, Rembrandt and Velázquez. His own work opens up similarly intimate dialogues between artist and model, and he relishes the kinetic energy of working with live bodies. The artist was born in Russia in 1963 and studied theoretical mathematics at Vilnius University in Lithuania before coming to the United States in the early 1980s. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1989-93 and now teaches at the same institution. Kanevsky won a Pew Fellowship in 1997, and has exhibited his work throughout the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. He continues to live and work in Philadelphia. Alex Kanevsky: Some Paintings In No Particular Style will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, including two enlightening new essays on the artist. Dr. C.D.C. Reeve, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of many books on ancient philosophy and the philosophy of sex and love, provides a poetic reading of Kanevsky’s deeply evocative creations, and art historian Ashley Park provides an insightful consideration of the new works based on a recent interview with the artist.
Alex Kanevesky Meditations On Some Colors - Flesh
de Hollis Taggart
https://vimeo.com/211711618
Flesh. There is no such color, of course. If you paint people, you notice that they range in color from greenish violet through almost white, to pink gray and then to warm dusty purple or sometimes greenish rose and all the way to Van Dyke Brown with Prussian Blue shadows, and with variations of cold violet, warm dark ochre with light bluish bloom. Not to mention pink. Many paint manufacturers optimistically offer something called “flesh tone” that looks like a deathly ill caucasian person with food poisoning and mood swings. Have to mix your own every time. Velazquez said that oil paint is ideally suited to painting human flesh. Euan Uglow discovered that, although the color range of flesh on a single person is very wide, the value interval is narrow. Matisse successfully painted a woman with a green nose. The standard procedure was always to achieve a desired color balance by using complimentary colors for the underpainting and the glaze over it. In this soup particles of opaque lighter pigments were suspended for the finer modulation. Frank Auerbach often uses a kind of greenish gray as the dominant color for flesh. But then he is English. When I travel I miss painting and I usually think of painting flesh. Elmer Bishoff used completely random bright colors for the human flesh with astonishingly good results. Art students are very excited when they notice for the first time that some shadows on a human model are blue and green. Jenny Saville goes from very complicated to very simple flesh color compositions in the same painting, which makes for a very real visceral presence. Ann Gale lets it happen depending one how involved she becomes with any given passage. Ingres just went all smooth as if his flesh is a window into a foggy morning. Lucian Freud’s “Benefit Supervisor “ is the most gloriously vast flesh in painting. Marble Greek and Roman statues were originally painted flesh color.
Alex Kanevesky Meditations On Some Colors - Black de Hollis Taggart https://vimeo.com/211711294
DAVID M. ROTH Alex Kanevsky: “Unstable Equilibrium” One thing we can say for certain about the Lithuania-born painter Alex Kanevsky is that he is an unabashed romantic. He paints with a bravura technique and uses its seductions to disarm viewers like me who tend to dismiss painting that issues its appeal in purely “retinal” terms. His main subjects are women in dishabille. They appear on beds and on beaches and in empty rooms and pools –languorously posed in places where radiant sunlight, azure waters and crumpled sheets call to mind playgrounds of the superrich. However Kanevsky is not making any kind of social or political statement. He is above all else a sensualist and a formalist. He paints to describe the eternal tugo-war between the tangible and the ineffable, and, more specifically, to chart how bodies behave at different points on that continuum.
A quick glance at the artist’s recent output shows him to be actively engaged with European masters, chief among them Seurat, Manet, Ingres, Bacon, Freud, Soutine and Auerbach. In summoning them, his objective, it appears, is to drag their sensibilities into the present by merging them with his own.
more: http://www.squarecylinder.com/2015/10/alex-kanevskydolby-chadwick/
Alex Kanevsky Exhibition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery - Research of the Unstable Equilibrium Amy Lin Balance can be hard to find in pixelated and constantly shifting imagery by Alex Kanevsky, but the artist manages to create a unique Unstable Equilibrium in his latest solo show. Unstable Equilibrium solo show at Dolby Chadwick gallery will feature a series of paintings that depict untamed nature and equally wild nudes. All paintings, even those portraying interior scenes in homes or art studios, appear as if they’ve been painted in plain air. The atmosphere of Alex Kanevsky’s paintings intoxicate viewers that often feel overwhelmed by the artist ’s striking, motion-blurred depictions.
Alex Kanevsky creates fragmented imagery that portrays people, objects and landscapes endowed with a sense of mystery. His subjects are interrupted by the elements of the environment such as vegetation, sky and waves, that twirl in constant motion. Swift brushstrokes are moving his forms around the background, while simultaneously opening them up to allow colors, shapes and gestures to pass through the cracks. It is this wild alchemy of movement that lets these paintings attain their powerful impact. Bodies of Alex Kanevsky’s subjects multiply, appear and then disappear in his intense, saturated compositions that seem so lively they practically pulsate.
Unstable Equilibrium artworks are inspired by myth, history and legend. Main subjects of these paintings are nude bodies, nature’s fragments and the interlacing of the two. Alex Kanevsky’s nude female models are often depicted in everyday situations such as sitting, sleeping or bathing. The subjects are often turned directly toward the audience while they confidently bare it all. The purity and honesty of these stunning models captivate the viewers’ attention and abolish the sensation of shame, often evoked by observing nakedness. Alex Kanevsky’s JWI in the Dark Studio is probably the best representative of the artist’s vigorous imagery. Naked female character is approaching the spectators with her arms open wide, as a sign of welcome. While gazing warmly into the darkness, the subject seems so uninhibited, so confident in her own skin that even the background of the painting radiates with flares of fleshcolored light. The fierce energy of Alex Kanevsky’s characters is so powerful that it changes the environment they reside in.
more : http://www.widewalls.ch/alex-kanevsky-exhibition-dolby-chadwick-gallery/
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Alex Kanevesky Meditations On Some Colors - Blue de Hollis Taggart https://vimeo.com/211711362
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Alex Kanevsky: Some Paintings In No Particular Style H o l l i s Ta g g a r t G a l l e r i e s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOipi8bDhh8
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Since the very beginning the internet was to me like an open window to the global village that could eliminate frontiers. This might explain why I created LA LUNA ART with the idea of a free and transnational project; a place to meet and where art, ideas and persons could gather. A kind of a different magazine bringing art from around the world to the entire planet. A sort of virtual gallery born out of passion and with no intermediaries; only the artwork, the artist and the viewer/reader should be the protagonists. miguel morales ruiz, editor
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