Olga Manilov

The main reason for my creations is a love of experimenting with different materials. The interesting thing is the intolerance of these. In this way, extraordinary textures can be created on the surface that are hardly possible to paint on purpose. Natural materials such as marble powder, lime, sand, champagne chalk, shellac, natural pigments and many others are used. Each of them has its own character and lives by its own rules. Getting them all on one surface is a challenge. But nothing is impossible.

It's fun to combine building material with artist material and watch how they react with each other. The joy of experimenting even leads me to let the picture burn. This creates textures that cannot be painted with a brush.

I can't say whether my work can be called art. For me, art only arises when the viewer goes on a journey over haptic surfaces, discovers shapes there that arouse his personal emotions and remains speechless for a moment.

18.11-18.12.2021 Group exhibition AD ASTRA Galeria Azur, Madrid