Anna
Divan (pseud. Of Anna Sirota, Moscow 1974) is graduated in Painting
at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Italy (2016), at the Cyprus
College of Art (Postgraduate Diplom, 2009)
and
in Restoration and Painting at the Baron Schtiglitz Academy of Art
and Design
of
St. Petersburg (2007).
She
has participated in numerous exhibitions and international
exhibitions such as: Montone Biennale (2012), Spazi d'Arte
(Florence, 2015), Artefiera di Padova (2017), Artist in the world
(Rome, 2019), Passaggio in Laguna (Venice , 2019).
Her
aesthetic research includes paintings that find inspiration in style
of
Abstract Expressionism and at the same time confront themselves with
the refined paintings in ancient Russian techniques. Ancient and
modern are temporal poles united in the natural desire to explore the
material of life.
Her
art wants to be a battlefield for existence, conscience, in search of
a yearning for the future, through controversial impulses that it
itself defines:
"Armies
of knowledge and intuition that often turn against each other."
Anatomy,
biology and psychology as the cornerstones of contemporary
researches, are hidden within her artistic ways called to recognize
the archetypes and mysteries of human history.
Intensity
and lightness marry the pictorial vision of the Divan, with the
material and spiritual dimensions.
The
tactile synesthesia of concentration binds to the concrete perception
and to the profound onirism of the unconscious and at the same time
the nuance of colors rises from the transitoriness of material
mortification to the cathartic transcendence of light. The mystery of
infinity that impregnates finitude is in the human power of
generativity, as its own conquest of eternal life.
Erica
Faccioli (Venice) and Fulvia Minetti (Rome), art critics
