Sveta Yavorsky

STANISLAV PLUTENKO VNE ITZOE Y A V O R S K Y S STA SAL AV P L U T E N K O BENBOW

Sveta Yavorsky is a Russian-born figurative artist in the contemporary British trend that rejects academic figurative representation in favour of a semi-abstract method of composition with what Malevich called the "additional element" of painting.

Sveta begins constructing her compositions by scattering seemingly randomly scaled particles of local colour with well defined contours, forming purely abstract clusters of elements. These bursts of colour collected into patterned layers are added together until their superposition is balanced on entirely abstract terms. Then, however, the human tendency to seek patterns in random data - to find figurative fulfilment - comes to the fore; a face or a hand that seems to be almost there is emphasised by the artist in subtle but decisive ways.

Nevertheless, these are still only abstract patterns of colour that resemble a spectral figure and the painting reaches closure before the figurative becomes literal, so that it remains vibrant in a special way that is only possible in abstract composition.

Field 2 detail 100 x 195 cm Oil on canvas

Beginning 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper

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

Golden Knight 150 x 75 cm Oil on canvas

Ganymede 180 x 95 cm Oil on canvas

Triton 180 x 95 cm Oil on canvas

Europa 180 x 95 cm Oil on canvas

Dione detail 1 180 x 195 cm Oil on canvas

Dione detail 2 180 x 195 cm Oil on canvas

Coast Bird Town Bird Town SkyBird I Town 110 x 160 110 x 170 cm x 170 170 cm 100110 x 100 cmcm Oil on canvas Mixed Oil media Oil on linen canvas onon canvas

Selected Exhibitions 2011 Moon Mages, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2010 Balman Gallery, Newcastle 2009 Winter exhibition, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2007 Mysteries, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2006 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2005 Cadogan Contemporary, London 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 Street Gallery, London 2002 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2001 Cricket Hill Associates, New York 2000 Millenium Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1999 New Year Exhibition, Cadogan 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 Young Artist Exhibition, Amsterdam

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