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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
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Oleh Lavrii I am an artist, and I hope that I am a representative of contemporary art. When I put paint on a canvas, I am not trying to turn it into a colored figure in order to convey the material qualities of the subject. In the process of work, I think a lot about what is happening on the canvas. Also, the objects of concentration of attention are both the physiological processes of reflection at the beginning of work, and the inspiration that arises when tracking one's emotions from emerging images. In the process of work, an atmosphere of mental analysis of the very process of creating an image is created, which has nothing to do with an arbitrary overlay of color strokes, but involves a thought process based on an inner feeling. Of course, this is not always the case. Sometimes I get inspired by what I see in nature or on the streets of cities, and I convey these images to the viewer using different techniques. From time to time I get out of the process of visual "meditation" and communicate with the outside world. I organize my exhibitions and everything that a contemporary artist has to do. I would be very happy if I have new contacts with people who love art, as well as with gallery owners and curators.
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An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator landescape@europe.com
Hello Oleh and welcome to LandEscape. Before starting to elaborate about your artistic production and we would like to invite our readers to visit https://lavri.netgallery.eu in order to get a wide idea about your artistic production, and we would start this interview
with a couple of questions about your background. You have a solid formal training and you studied at Crimean Art School. N. S. Samokish: how do these formative experiences influence your evolution as an artist? Moreover, how does your cultural substratum address the direction of your current artistic research? Oleh Lavrii: Experienced teachers can shape the