Kristina Okan

Metamorphosis no. 4

Name: Metamorphosis no. 4
Brand: Kristina Okan
Price: 400.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$400.00 USD

Artist: Kristina Okan
Certification of Authenticity: Apricus Art Collection
Signature:Signed by Artist

Description

Original drawing

Paper : off-white textured

Technique : watercolour, ink, hand painted

Signature : work signed on the back by the artist

Dimensions: 30 x 40cm

Framing: work delivered without frame

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Artist Biography

Kristina Okan is an artist, born in Russia. Lives and works in Spain. Okan received her Master Fine Arts Degree from Stroganov`s Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in Moscow. Okan has exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and Asia, including the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and China. She was nominated for the prestigious international ceramic art award Blanc de Chine in 2019 and 2021, and the Koschatzky Art Award in 2021 - the largest graphic award in Europe for young artists. In 2022 her work for the Moon Gallery Foundation (the first off-planet gallery) was launched to the International Space Station as a part of an artistic and scientific mission. In her works, Okan examines the beauty and fragility of the natural world, as well as the transfor mation of matter under the influence of time. Her sculptural language is rooted in classical Euro pean traditions of porcelain art, engaging with themes of transformation, biomorphism, and notions of the micro and macrocosm. Okan combines elements of nature in an unexpected way, thus her works carry both grace and "disturbing strangeness".

Artist Statement

In my artistic practice, I manifest the process of decomposition as the formation of a new aesthetic form by turning withering fruits and vegetables into petrified miniature monuments. My porcelain works usually emerge from the notions of consumption, obsolescence and exploitation. Expressed by fragile decay aesthetics, my works question the idea of beauty itself with its obsessive idolization and ephemerality, and therefore refer to the plasticity and emotional expression of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse. In my recent works, I am focused on rethinking the matter of time in the vanitas tradition. The stock thesis on the frailty of life, referable in my works, ascends to the tradition of the Dutch still life. I am fascinated by symbolic system of signification of XVI and XVII centuries still lifes, based on the Christian connotation of the ripe fruit as an image of the original sin, ephemerality of terrestial life and inevitable death. Nonetheless, my works are not about death, they are mostly about the beauty of the moment, representing organic metamorphosis, imminence of fading as a novel value.

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