Creating art from war zones
5:30:00 μ.μ.Maybe it sounds naif, but i feel really grateful, every time internet and more specific Instagram, brings me closer to persons, i wouldn't have the chance to meet. It feels great to be able to connect with people, whose work and personality talk to my mind and my heart.
Three weeks ago i discovered Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso). I was amazed by the way she creates beautiful and harmonius art by mapping areas of conflict around the world, through artistic and exquisite tapestries of pinprick dots on paper. This is an attractive way to show to people the effect of violence and how this reacts to the ground. She has mapped nuclear zones and topographies of changing borders in war, such as Chernobyl and Fukushima, in the most beautiful way.
What i love most at her work is the way she combines the disciplines of science and art.
The way she works is painful enough but probably the beautiful outcome gives her a huge catharsis. The aesthetically and delicate depiction of the war zone is created methodically. Stanislava hits a tool -it's like an awl - into a blank sheet of paper. Imagine something like hand-hammered pinholes. Thousands of pinholes create the final "body". It's like drawing with nothing and it's outstanding. One more contradiction that i love.
The holes take the role of data, depicting the appropriate information. These data/pin holes, are based on real measurements/information that are collected by Stanislava on site visits. That's why she might spend 3-4 years for create one piece of art. First she travels, then she collects info and after that begins the handmade creation. The final look & feel is like a breezy lacework. A procedure, a powerful example, of how hard work could be transfered into a magic outcome. I think such outcomes, have the most heavenly substantial feeling.
She has worked with international clients such as Channel, Tiffany &
Co, Nike, etc.
In 2013, the National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne,
acquired two of the pinprick works, making her one of the youngest
artists featured in the collection. Also, she was recognized on the
prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018).
Stanislava's creativity is unstoppable, expanding it in different "bodies", elements and spaces.
She is also known for her tattoo drawings. Her delicate tatoos have a similar technique with the pinpricks, as far as the dots/stick and poke technique is concerned. Another uniqueness is that she doesn't trade her tatoos for money but for anything else, that she would ask. In example: clothing, concert tickets, a handmade meal, a bottle of whisky etc. In that way, she has also tattooed on singers Florence Welch and Sam Smith.
Since i love
contradictions, i should ask Stanislava the below:
Question: Creating
art from disaster zone data, is a contradictory situation. You create
something beautiful and harmonius from something "ugly" and aggressive.
In what way do you connect this contradiction?
Stanislava
Pinchuk (Miso): I think the role of artists in the world, is to embody
contradictions - ask questions, than give answers. To give
provocations.
To
make art in times of conflict doesn't seem contradictory to me. Those
are times the human soul needs catharsis, to sublimate something into
expression. A statement of witness - I was there.
Below you could see some of Stanislava's creations.
For more inspiration and information, you could visit www.stanislavapinchuk.com
‘Topography : The Road to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant’,
(triptych). Pin-holes on paper, 101 x 225 cm. Private collection, 2016
‘Surface : Luhansk (Topographic Data Map)’. Pin-holes on paper, 1.1 x 1.5 m. Private collection, 2015
‘N.M. ( Rice, Pistachio, Barberry )’, photographic print on cotton rag. Edition of 5 + 3 AP, 90 x 120cm, 2019.
The photos are used from Stanislava’s Pinchuk site.
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