CHANGE IS AN INSTANT?
“ You change your shape
And you fly freely as a bird
The movements of life are full
But the wings burn the rays ”
Deftones “Change (In the house of files)”
What is metamorphosis? How fast do they happen? Can they end? Young Moscow artists Jeanne Lett and Dima Rovel want to understand how our soul and body can change at the joint exhibition of photography and painting "Metamorphose" . The opening took place on December 9 at 19:00 in one of the Moscow bars.
You are greeted by the fiery atmosphere of the club: bright lights, DJ music. They are like a framing for the energetic works of two authors. From the ceiling, from the walls, photographs of uninhibited Jeanne are looking at you. She looks like a shamaness. All in bright colors, conjuring over you, then laughing loudly, then quieting down, and mixes different emotions in its huge cauldron. Here is madness and wild joy and pain.
She wants to reveal her bright temperament: sexuality is expressed with the help of complex forms of surrealism (a trend in art that formed by the beginning of the 20s of the 20th century in France and is characterized by the use of paradoxes and metaphors - author's note).
Bizarre poses, body parts - you seem to be quietly touching the world of the erotic, which is on the brink. Or maybe he has no boundaries? On the one hand, it seems that he is very
contrasting: shades of emotions are saturated, dense, on the other - transparent. It's like a vessel made of glass - there are pure emotions in it and they seem to be transmitted to you.
Jeanne shows the sensual image of a modern woman. She is born again and again in different images: either she is a small, fragile devil, playfully beckoning to herself, or an adult, confident sorceress. It seems that it is fully revealed, but there is still a mystery.
“For me, metamorphosis is like“ bucking ”, when you turn from some inconspicuous form into something meaningful. The direct meaning is from caterpillar to butterfly, i.e. coming out of darkness into light and vice versa in such a bright format ”- says the artist.
Next to her is the magician Dima Rovel . He wants to make his phantasmagoric dreams come true. From the soul he takes children's fears, ideas - and before us is another, subtle world. We look in there and see a boy. He grew up in the womb of art and now comes into the world with a cry. He is a rebel and seems to have his own rules. The strokes on the paintings are sharp, nervous - the author easily plays with colors and shapes. "Dominican drunkard", "Andalusian pumpkin". Maybe there is an impulse in them?
Then he seems to disappear, giving way to more subtle experiences. They are concentrated in deep blue, green colors on the canvases "Absinthe" and "Opus-4".
These are already other, more conscious experiments with meanings and shades. Through images with you now frankly
says the grown-up artist. He talks about his changes, his place in life.
“For me, metamorphosis in the context of this exhibition is the evolution of my works, i.e. I presented in it as my earliest paintings, from 2009 to “Absinthe” . Now I understand that I have already formed as an artist, but I continue to develop. The older I get, the more the stroke, the idea changes, the tone changes, it becomes deeper. You can trace how the ideas of a child who does not understand anything, who takes a brush and just draws, turn into the philosophy of an adult. This is what I present in Metamorphosis, just like Jeanne.
The artists mix together the masculine and feminine worlds. From emotional overflows, unexpected states, they create a wild cocktail called “flash-transform” (transform / transformation ”- from the English“ transformation ”,“ transformation ”- author's note). It is multi-colored, with transitional shapes, sweet for someone, bitter for someone at the same time. You drink it - and everything changes in an instant. And how could it be otherwise, if it is a drink from the very soul?
Text and photo: Natalia Pushchinskaya