Flex ‒ Irina Ojovan
-'FLEX' is Irina Ojovan's second solo show at COSAR and the gallery contribution to the DC OPEN season start.
The paintings and sculptures by the Moldovan-born artist initially appear purely abstract, but on closer inspection they increasingly reveal their architectural references.
The spectrum of her painting describes an aesthetic field of tension that moves between monochrome hard edge and subtly graded color surfaces and never slips into the purely. The emblematic forms in Irina Ojovan's paintings form a geometric vocabulary that, with its formal language reminiscent of curved rulers, templates or technical profiles, creates a rudimentary architecture that forms an open structure and always places the autonomous picture as an aesthetic unit in the focus of reception.
Form and color create pictorial spaces that are sometimes based on the contrast of two colors in a minimalistic and reduced way, then they are infinitely nuanced areas of color that let layer by layer look into the depth of the picture. Always stringent, Irina Ojovan's pictures show a wide range of variants, which seeks the space in between in the interplay of the spatial and the formal without superficial effects.
This artistic principle is echoed in the sculptures in the exhibition, as they are phenomenologically closely linked to painting. Due to their diverse references to architecture, they enter into a direct dialogue with the space surrounding them.
Irina Ojovan studied at the Munich Art Academy with Günther Förg and Matthias Dornfeld and graduated in 2018 as a master student of Gregor Hildebrandt. In 2020 Irina Ojovan received the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize.
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IRINA OJOVAN
Installation view ‚Flex‘
COSAR, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
Installation view ‚Flex‘
COSAR, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
Profile N100, Oil on paper, 41 x 31 cm, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
Profile N74, Oil on paper, 41 x 31 cm, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
Installation view ‚Flex‘
COSAR, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
C.Profile N8, Oil on canvas, 105 cm x 90 cm, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
Installation view ‚Flex‘
COSAR, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
Installation view ‚Flex‘
COSAR, 2022 -
IRINA OJOVAN
C.Profile N9, Oil on canvas, 105 cm x 90 cm, 2022