Iryna Calinicenco

Iryna Calinicenco (Cairyna), 1984 Ukraine/Moldova.
Iryna works at the intersection of Mixed Media and New Media techniques - by combining drawing, photography, collage and exposure to chemicals on the drawing. Plus the final digital manipulation.
In Iryna's work over the years one can notice an increasing bias toward realism, an accent on semi-figurative images.
She depicts distortions, as she does not believe in straightness and flatness of all things. Combines photography, drawing, and digital manipulation to emphasize structure and detail previously unnoticed by anyone else. Shows the difference between reality and her understanding of the image of reality, and proves that the truth is always subjective.

Iryna's paintings are mostly semi-figurative, stylized to a greater or lesser extent, gravitating toward abstract aesthetics and naive imagery.
Line and color are presented as something prevailing over form. It is a kind of play with the imagination and a flirtation with the viewer's fantasy. Working at the intersection of abstraction and figurativeness, using unusual materials, Iryna does not seek external harmony and beauty of the image, she plays with perspective and canons. In this way she reformats the viewer...

2007 - Vernadsky Tavrichesky National University
2009 - Charity courses of art "Nadiya" in Kiev (Ukraine).

2023 - Digital Street Festival and Outdoor Art Expo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2023 - «L'Ànima de les Màquines: Interrogar l'IA des de les arts», Centre Cívic El Coll - La Bruguera, Barcelona, Spain.
2023 - "OFF THELINE" - Galerie le Cerisier, Paris, France.
2023 - "Transe Humance" Con-Temporary Art Observatorium, Lavagna, Italy
2023 - International Annual Theme Award: The parallel worlds "ArtRevolution Taipei", Taiwan, FINALIST.
2023 - The International Exhibition of the Festival JAZZ DANCE OPEN, «CollageGallery» - "Dance in collage", Pardubice, Czech Republic
2022 – «Touches» Exhibition in Center for Contemporary Art Pivka, Slovenia
2022 - ARTFUZE, Exhibition BENEVOLENCE, London (Second prize)
2022 – «BetterTogether» artist's online exhibition «Through the clouds»
2022 – The Satanic Temple at Salem Art Gallery, Massachusetts
2022 - Vorspiel Summoning Exhibition, Okta Studio
2022 - 3rd International Painting Biennale “Changing the Empty Surface”
2022 - Participated in a group exhibition, CLASH - in The Holy Art Gallery, London.
2021 - Participated in a group exhibition in the 10-th International Art Festival in Slovenia.