The Geometry of Space
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Of The Gardens cycle, paper
A Lviv’s designer Olena Turianska, when not working on witty interiors, allures herself with the art with a knife in her hands. She occupies herself with an old and sacred art which all of us were delighted with in childhood carving ‘snowflakes’ of napkins and colour paper. We simply didn’t know at that time that it’s called ‘vytynanka’ (a kind of decorative art of openwork and silhouette ornaments made with the help of a knife, scissors, small hatchets, and so on). And we didn’t know, either, that in the hands of a real virtuoso, a vytynanka may amaze with composition complexity and produce a quite unexpected impression.
While examining ‘mandalas’ of the master, you don’t understand right away what they are weaved of — of material paper or only of light. Exactly due to directed light, the showiness of these art objects becomes stronger in an exhibition hall. Placed at a distance from a wall, the openwork carved papers cast witty shadows and thus get rid of flatness and obtain chimerical volume.
The traceries themselves are a discrete geometrical lace and meditative suprematist citation. Perhaps, you have to perceive and to feel the physical environment to a miracle delicately to play such subtle games with it. Probably, it’s exactly what the artist means when she states that when she cuts holes in a piece of paper, she lets the space in it. This is the way the new reality based on the optical illusion becomes apparent. And this reality, like most of delusions, is exceedingly attractive
Autor: Mariana Prut
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