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Born 1981 Soviet Union. Known for: Monochromatic figurative painting, photography.
With their ghostly, alienated faces and figures reminiscent of Soviet-era photography, Janis Avotin's thinly painted canvases draw us into a fragile, elliptic world haunted by collective memory. In... Read full biography
With their ghostly, alienated faces and figures reminiscent of Soviet-era photography, Janis Avotin's thinly painted canvases draw us into a fragile, elliptic world haunted by collective memory. In one of Avotin' series, photographs of the heads of two sombre-looking Cold War-era bureaucrats are... Read full biography
With their ghostly, alienated faces and figures reminiscent of Soviet-era photography, Janis Avotin's thinly painted canvases draw us into a fragile, elliptic world haunted by collective memory. In one of Avotin' series, photographs of the heads of two sombre-looking Cold War-era bureaucrats are stripped of their original context and reappear within a dark emptiness. Their studied features look crudely eroded, as if rubbed onto, or rubbed out of, a temporary blackboard. Two gossamer-like female... Read full biography
With their ghostly, alienated faces and figures reminiscent of Soviet-era photography, Janis Avotin's thinly painted canvases draw us into a fragile, elliptic world haunted by collective memory. In one of Avotin' series, photographs of the heads of two sombre-looking Cold War-era bureaucrats are stripped of their original context and reappear within a dark emptiness. Their studied features look crudely eroded, as if rubbed onto, or rubbed out of, a temporary blackboard. Two gossamer-like female figures - another solemn and almost faceless pair - appear to be walking out of a background of darkness. Their poses, soft silhouettes and the bright illumination on their bodies recall the long-exposure and bleached out feel of early photography,... Read full biography
With their ghostly, alienated faces and figures reminiscent of Soviet-era photography, Janis Avotin's thinly painted canvases draw us into a fragile, elliptic world haunted by collective memory. In one of Avotin' series, photographs of the heads of two sombre-looking Cold War-era bureaucrats are stripped of their original context and reappear within a dark emptiness. Their studied features look crudely eroded, as if rubbed onto, or rubbed out of, a temporary blackboard. Two gossamer-like female figures - another solemn and almost faceless pair - appear to be walking out of a background of darkness. Their poses, soft silhouettes and the bright illumination on their bodies recall the long-exposure and bleached out feel of early photography, so often showing shapes similarly eked out of an enveloping darkness. They are beautiful, bleak and memorable, all at once. Often... Read full biography
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