"Muay Thai" project "Diana" Print

Diana After a few years of working on the “Gorilla’s laughter” , “Abstract Portraits”, “Sex and Other Communications”, as well as many extracurricular works, Vitaliy Kravec now more and more prefers quick emotional drawings. Somewhere between automatism, abstract art and calligraphy. The withdrawal of physicality, human and animal subjects inspires the author in his most recent works. According to Kravec, the most interesting and difficult  way to work is to use minimal but precise expression. For example, if academic painting is comparable to the music of a symphony orchestra,  then these drawings most closely resemble a sorcerer playing with a single string. Blind monotype it’s not a technique, rather an exercise invented by Vitaliy Kravec, immersing automatism and mediumism into his works. Exposing the artist's “store" and his experiments is a well-known curatorial practice, it works with classical artists when all known  "hits” are cataloged & seen, unknown sketches will start to appear from the “studio stores" & find their way into galleries.  Here is another way - monotype, made blindly, has no chance of reproduction in other technic, and these drawings are not sketches or preparatory works. These are self-contained printouts in a single copy. The Diana Project are Vitaliy Kravec reflections on some  aspects of human identity: sexuality, loneliness, aggression ... The project attempts to develop an intuitive and associative perception. Nowadays in the world of total communication, with so many words, images, sounds and other information, there is a need for these media to be minimised - decreasing form without loosing sense. In the  series “Diana”, Vitaliy Kravec seek’s to find some minimised media-tool in dynamic drawing.