Ivan Stratiev
\n\u201eTemptations\u201c
\npainting
\n11 \u2013 29 May 2022
\nopening: 11th May from 6pm until 8pm<\/p>\n
Ivan Stratiev
\nThe tempted artist or the tempting artist<\/p>\n
Every person no matter if he is an artist or a spectator, encounters temptations in life.
\nTo some he surrenders, and some he stoically rejects. Emotions push him to “falls” and reason stops him from “mistakes”. I put them in quotes because I think a person regrets more for what he didn’t do than for what he did. Trivial, but true. Art takes us out of our comfort zone through emotions. Traveling in the garden of temptations makes us feel alive and happy. The grayness of the daily life depresses us. We need to indulge in temptation from time to time, even contemplating it from the side.
\nDrawing his temptations, the artist becomes a tempter, ready to lead the viewer into the magical garden of his creations.
\nThe game can be fun, dangerous and addictive.
\nBut art is also therapy. It clears the accumulated fears and stereotypes. It takes us out of the grayness and clich\u00e9s and leads us to where everyone reaches according to their imagination and temptations.
\nOne reaches the gluttony, another the erotic, the third the metaphysical.
\nYou enter the gallery and the dice are rolled. Are you about to discover your temptation or not?<\/p>\n\t\t\t