Roman Pivtoranis

My name is Roman Pivtoranis. I was born in Lviv, Ukraine in 1989. My family and I moved to Bologna, Italy in the early 2000s, where I studied, and now work as a 3d artist.

I was always into computer graphics and only recently moved to a traditional medium. It took me some time to figure out what was missing in my work and understand that without intimate contact with the medium, there cannot be a proper transmission. Everything clicked into place the first time I tried to work with clay. It’s a perfect medium of expression, able to transmit the subtlest of nuances and lock them in time and space.

The main subject of my work is the metaphysical nature of human beings. I use concepts such as Persona, with its original meaning in Greek - Prósōpon, "face; appearance; mask used in ancient theatre to denote a character or, more generally, a social role". I explore various states of the mind and give them a mask. I also use concepts like Daemons - the guiding spirits of ancient Greece. There’s always a contraposition between the opposites, male-female, passive-active, and object-subject.

I make use of the three-dimensionality of my sculptures in exploring the given situation in more dimensions at once. Each sculpture has an obvious, ea...

Self-taught