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Actually, I find in Tania's painting a frontal refusal of abstraction or theorization.
What interests her is a warmth, an energy, an embodied connection that cannot be captured under this or that category of social life.
It is, as I say, a return to the old, beautiful ambition of the portrait - to show the soul of an individual - but partly filtered by the norms of the Instagram image that she appropriates in a playful way.
They are hands freed from work - from production, from manufacturing. They are returned to their essential property: touching and signing.
It is from these useless or unusable hands that what I would like to call a queer sensuality can emerge.
It's not uncommon for the texture of the skin to change a little on the surface of the hands - as if these hands belonged to someone else.
Hands are active but characters are idle: hands are busy while the bodies are available, left to themselves, waiting for an event, etc.
On the one hand, the enigmatic presence of the model silences the powers of painting; on the other hand, the form of the model dislocates itself under the ferocious assaults of the painter. Portraiture is a dangerous business.
She is determined to inhabit the portrait and to deploy her art there without any irony.
Any portrait stands on a point of balance between idolatry that threatens to destroy painter's art and artist's aggressiveness that disfigures what they give figure to.
More rarely, the portrait is an end in itself: to represent someone, their form, their singular way of being.
@tania_rivilis's portraits do not cheat. They are neither an exercise in style nor a pretext to prove the originality of an aesthetic sensibility.
Congrats to @BoredApeLadies and to all the November residents: you did hell of a job.
I have a soft spot for Lady Gentileschi by @golara_art, Ether Queen by @NaimePakniyat, Mapedusa by @isboredagain and I Shine by @nfteye.
But the whole gang is one step closer to the moon!
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 #𝟒 Let's share thoughts about a crypto-artist work.
Tonight, I want to talk about @bryanbrinkman’s work. Without the slightest hint of exaggeration, I would say that @bryanbrinkman is to NFTs what Steve Reich is to music. Let me elaborate.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 #𝟑
Let's share some thoughts about a cryptoartist work.
Tonight, I want to talk about @NorrieHarman’s work: in a world now structured by information flows, Harman offers a rich visual exploration of noises and unavoidable transmission errors.