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ISLANDS AND BECKETT : LONDON 2006
 
  IVANOV LONDON STUDION
 

2006 in London was a splash of paintings under heavy influence of Samuel Beckett and Northern Seas with a short stay in Barcelona, Paris and The Island.

FROM 2006 ARTIST'S STATEMENT :


I like landscapes with no trees, animals and people, or where from time to time people are just passing by without performing any drama, any gestures and speeches

I like to read Samuel Beckett, Gilles Deleuze and Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes Geomorphology

I like cinema with no much action

Cities are ok as long as they are big enough to accommodate enough chaos in it, so dense that everything merges into one chaotic matter

I know so many stories. Tonnes of stories so densely interrelated and intermixed I can’t tell anymore only to paint layer by layer. Mixed media is relevant here

New paintings were painted in my London studio while I was thinking of islands in the Northern Sea and Hong Kong, connecting all this and other places by drawing the “plane of consistency”, “smooth space” from the beginning of my journey, from Kyrgyz Steppes - where I came from to all other places where I went, where I am and where I am going to

I don’t think I’m depicting any particular or imaginary landscape, or illustrating any book – my paintings are books and landscapes by themselves written of paint with a constant curiosity about the materials they are made
Things I can’t connect in my mind are floating in painted matter. I can’t see any reason to paint visible and certain things, but enjoying to see them, painting voids, smudging boundaries of recognizable shapes, painting uncertainty

I used to call my paintings “railway paintings” – paintings in-between destinations, tool of deterritorisation where memories mixed with an expectation of the unseen yet and stories, legends, myths, hallucinations.
I paint by layers – transparent and solid, textured where mixture of complexities added to each other are creating continuous surface often monochrome with traces of all previous layers

 
 
 

1 - 4. Work in Progress. Studio. London
5 - 8. Second Trip to Orkney and our land on the Island where new studio is going to be build.
9 - 12. Exhibition at Spinach. London.
13 - 16. Paris.
17 - 32. Our Studio in London.
33 - 36. Barcelona.
37 - 40. Moon Day with Lanterns on the roof of our studio. London.

 
 
 
BOOK OF ISLANDS       
Page 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 45 × 55cm Page 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 45 × 55cm Page 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 45 × 55cm Page 4. Mixed Media on Canvas. 45 × 55cm
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BECKETT, ISLANDS, LHASA    
What I need now is stories, it took me a long time to know that, and I’m not sure of it.– Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Part I . Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm. C. Mull Head - 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm. C. Sauol-Less - 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm. C.
Sauol-Less - 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm. C. Sauol-Less - 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm. C. Mull Head - 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm
Murphy, Watt, Yerk, Mercier and all the others. – Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Part II. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm ...you would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is black and flat...
– Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Part I . Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 180cm
Lhasa 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 165 × 175cm
Lhasa 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 165 × 175cm Lhasa 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 165 × 175cm Lhasa 4. Mixed Media on Canvas. 165 × 175cm
 
 
 
COASLINE and PIERS  
Mull Head of Papa Westray. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm Mull Head of Papa Westray 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm
“What a rest to speak of bicycles and horns” - Beckett. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm Bay of Burland : East Coast of Papa Westray. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm
The Roost - 1 : West Coast of Papa Westray. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm. C. The Roost - 2 : West Coast of Papa Westray. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm. C.
 
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. – Samuel Beckett. Malone Dies. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 120cm  
Blue Pier 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 55cm. C. Blue Pier 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 45cm. C.
Pier 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 55cm Pier 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 290 × 45cm
 
 
 
NORTHERN ISLANDS
IVANOV PAPA WESTRAY ORKNEY
Northern Island 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 490 × 175cm
IVANOV PAPA WESTRAY ORKNEY
Northern Island 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 490 × 175cm
IVANOV PAPA WESTRAY ORKNEY
Red Island. Mixed Media on Canvas. 490 × 175cm
 
 
SMALL HOUSES      
Small House 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm. C. Small House 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm. C. Small House 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm. C. Small House 4. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm
Small House 5. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm Small House 6. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm Small House 7. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm Small House 8. Mixed Media on Canvas. 65 × 55cm
 
 
 
Small House 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 55cm. C. Small House 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 55cm. C. Small House 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 55cm. C.
Small House 4. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 55cm. C. Small House 5. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 55cm. C. Small House 6. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 55cm. C.
Small House 7. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 45cm Small House 8. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 45cm. C. Small House 9. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 45cm
Small House 10. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 45cm Small House 11. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 45cm Small House 12. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 45cm
 
 
 
BROCH      
BROCH 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 4. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm
BROCH 5. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 6. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 7. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 8. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm
BROCH 9. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 10. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 11. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm BROCH 12. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 × 90cm
 
 
 
ISLANDS      
Islands 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm Islands 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm Islands 3. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm Islands 4. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm. C.
Islands 5. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm Islands 6. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm Islands 7. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm Islands 8. Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 × 170cm
 
 
 
LI BAI    
Li Bai. Drinking Alone With the Moon. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 150cm Li Bai. Down Zhongnan Mountain to the Kind Pillow and Bowl of Husi. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 150cm. C. Li Bai. Changgan. Mixed Media on Canvas. 170 × 150cm. C.
 
 
 
RED HOLMS      
Red Holm 1. Acrylic on Canvas. 69 × 72cm. C. Red Holm 2. Acrylic on Canvas. 69 × 72cm. C. Red Holm 3. Acrylic on Canvas. 69 × 72cm. C. Red Holm 4. Acrylic on Canvas. 69 × 72cm. C.
   
Red Holm 5. Acrylic on Canvas. 69 × 72cm. C. Red Holm 6. Acrylic on Canvas. 69 × 72cm. C.    
 
 
 
RED CRO
Red Cro1. Acrylic on Canvas. 120 × 72cm. C. Red Cro2. Acrylic on Canvas. 120 × 72cm. C.
 
 
 
PAINTING ON THE WALL @ CABLE STREET STUDIOS
Cable Street. Mixed Media on Canvas. 450× 240cm approx  
 
 
 
HOLMS      
Cold Holm 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 75 × 65cm Cold Holm 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 75 × 65cm Blue Holm 1. Mixed Media on Canvas. 75 × 50cm Blue Holm 2. Mixed Media on Canvas. 75 × 50cm
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