Ivan Lenardic

born 21.01.1964, Bled, Slovenia, EuropaSimbolistik
Ivan Lenardic' paintings, charged with abundance of substance, represent a true curriculum vitae in which life resounds sweepingly with its rules and contrasts; life in which join hands love and hate, compassion and indifference, aggression and peace, purity and licentiousness, dreaminess and sobriety, youth and old age, hope and death.
Painter's works are impregnated by a specific atmosphere full of tension and dynamics. It seems as if an invisible flow of energy connected the painter's work which is distinguished by a variety of motifs to a complete entirety. Despite the narrative as well as the creation of figures and settings with a touch of realism in author's paintings, there is a constant occurrence of an irrational ingredient interlacing with surrealistic tendencies, with the insight in the man's interior without being burdened either by strings of the reason or the prescribed standards. A tangible object or a figure in the painting often become a reflection of an idea or a subconscious experience, just as the author's inclination to express himself in symbols often obscures the narrative scenery built on realistic or pop art bases.

Painter's work contains another vit...