Igor Bravničar - Metamorfoze

THE PAINTING AS MATRIX

Igor Bravničar, a graduate of both the Academy of Music and the Academy of Fine Arts, is a multifaceted artist, something that is already apparent from his professional career. He professes his artistic creed through both painting and music and this interweaving of media is reflected in a significant manner in his paintings through his approach to artistic creation. In many of his oil paintings it is in fact possible to recognise, through a suggestive poetic note characteristic of Bravničar's work, limitless meditative landscapes transformed into the mental spaces of seas, clouds, horizons, where the artist is interested above all in the modulation of the inner tensions of individual fragments of the painting in relation to the whole, the intensification of an individual tonality and logical transitions into a rhythm that modulates the harmony of the whole. The main problem elements through which Bravničar expresses his own perception while empirically solving the artistic enigma are, in this series, light and colour.

In the Metamorphoses series the artist takes as his starting point an older work done in oil on canvas (Sea No. 3 - dyptich,2005, oil on canvas, 111 x 279 cm) which, with the help of a photographic process, he deconstructs and translates into an entirely different medium. The result is the Metamorphoses series of six C-prints mounted on Dibond, where the dimensions and framing style remain identical as an essential trace of the reproductive aspect of the works, as do the proportions within the image field, while the tactile structures and the mutual correlations and tensions of the colour spectrum have changed. In the altered chromatic vibration, the new work acquires a new identity that is entirely its own.

The modulation of the image is created exclusively by the separated light, which Bravničar reinforces at the exhibition with two lightboxes from the Inversions series, where the process of transformation is actually the same as in the Metamorphoses, except that the origin of the light is immanent in these paintings and can change the spectrum and intensity of the light

Igor Bravničar - biography

After graduating from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (1989, piano), Igor enrolled to study fine art (1993, 1994) at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He later obtained a Masters degree in art from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Igor lives and works in Ljubljana and at the Studenčić bay, Lošinj, Croatia.