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667 - untitled - Indigo Painting

Anita Levering

New Zealand

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 39.4 W x 59.1 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

My research explores issues connected to chance and intentionality. This is achieved through semi-controlled experiments utilising the Natural world, such as the weather, organic processes, entropic forces and living organisms. My artworks become the site of traces of an experience, displaying evidence of past autonomous material events. My paintings do not ‘represent’ something but present the thing itself: ‘a document of dialogue’, drawing out new connections in the viewer’s experience. I am embracing the traditional Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi (which is a world view centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection). The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".

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Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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39.4 W x 59.1 H x 1 D in

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Born and raised in the Netherlands, but for the last 25 years residing and painting in New Zealand. I am Interested in letting go of control in the painting process, embracing chance encounters and experiment with deepening these phenomenon. My painting-based research explores issues connected to chance and intentionality. Examining the unpredictability of external inputs in the creation of abstract paintings. This methodology allows freedom but also creates vulnerability, as I try to broach issues of chance and intentionality, and disperse and disrupt predictable patterns, behaviours, and knowledge. This is achieved through semi-controlled experiments utilising variables other than the artist’s brush and gesture. My process of creation comes from a desire for detachment: a distancing of self that allows focus on natural transitional processes rather than the artist’s own propulsive force to generate form. The limitation of my own control is exercised to foster play and curiosity and to avoid formal intentions, subjective will, or desire for expression. This acceptance of transience references organic processes and accepts the natural cycle of growth and decay. I employ painting as a self-referential medium, with paint usually applied as evenly as possible; minimising gesture and brush marks to avoid subjective action, and giving way to a systematic or rule-based manipulation of the medium. By eliminating artistic agency, the work becomes open to randomness and dissipation, but at the same time it allows for the creation of a universal symbolic and ideographic grammar in painting itself. The works become the site of traces of an experience, displaying evidence of past autonomous material events. Levering refers to her paintings as data visualisations, they communicate data from something that is abstract or at least not immediately visible. These paintings do not ‘represent’ something but present the thing itself: a document of dialogue drawing out new connections in the viewer’s experience.

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