Irene Kudriavchenko

Boom, België

I am artist working in painting and graphic art for many years. I studied in National Academy of Art and Architecture in Ukraine, and now I live and create in Belgium.

I also work as art restorer with historical paintings. But my main passion is creating artworks in my atelier.

Altamira, or Rembrandt's painting, or the canvases of Basquiat or Cy Twombly - everywhere we see that artists resort to the line as the main tool of the image. It creates form, and it also destroys it. So I paint portraits of people, experimenting with marker lines, trying to tame the chaos they create.

Most of all, I like to draw people, studying their inner world, relationship to life, relationship with the surrounding space.

Usually these are all fictional characters. I study the emotion on a person's face. Wide or narrow cheekbones, different eye shapes, emotions that leave a mark on the face - what distinguishes these people, can their unstoppable inner strength come out with simple marker strokes?

The smiling faces on the portraits is the part of my series dedicated to joy and dream.
As long as I am Ukrainian artist currently I live in Belgium and constant feeling sorrow and frustration because of war in Ukraine. My friend asked me to draw a joyful human faces to stop destruction and pain. So I draw smiles and cheerful people and try do not forget about life is beautiful somewhere.

SOME EVENTS

2002 - graduated from NAOMA, Master’s Degree in Art and Restoration

2012 resident of the Center for Creativity and Research at CeRCCa, Barcelona

2014 Kalita-Art Gallery, Kyiv

2022 Mont de Piété-Berg van Barmhartigheid, Brussels

2022 Hofke van Chantraine, Oud-Turnhout

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