Adam & Eva Painting

My diptych Adam & Eva Project “Trouble in Paradise” 2 artwork - 150*70 cm, acrylic, medium, gold, pencil, canvas, 2019 . 150*140 cm Our body seems to be the only constant thing, which presence in the world is doubtless. It’s through the body that we ascertain our own reality: I feel pain, itchy, cold… At the same time it’s the sources of the greatest transformations during our life. It can be difficult to embrace that, roughly speaking, we are an almost mystic alchemy of hormones, metabolism, and continuous birth and death that takes place inside us. We’re a permanently changing structure. Thus, it comes as no surprise metamorphoses were one of the main motifs in classical art that still draws attention of contemporary masters. Art itself is based on mutability: as an American art theoretician and critic James Elkins noted, “Ultimately, seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer. Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism”. Metamorphoses reveal the essence of this or that thing. The featured painting project by Tetiana Cherevan explores the manifestations of different complex inner states we all experience, as love, pain, desire. Those deep impulses are rooted in our unconsciousness. They are universal by nature, hence it’s completely logical the artist uses images (snake, shell, peacock, apple) that are connected with the various religions, myths and practices, referring to a huge cultural diversity from Christianity to Buddhism. At the heart of the painting is figure paste, around characters that are drawn with a charcoal pencil. Around Eve gold leaf set out a circle that symbolizes the ovule. The work is fixed matte varnish.