Raman Axionau, Soft and Spiky, 2023

acrylic, canvas, 44 x 57 cm

When creating the painting, the artist used two techniques that try to match each other and mask the boundaries between them. Part of the painting is done classically, with oil paints. Raman also used a stamp with the inscription "painting has fallen" to make the work. The desire to combine the two techniques is partly coincidental. The overlapping phrases give the impression of illegibility and the ink from the stamp slowly turns into a uniform, colorful stain. "Paint as a material, is in our time less and less associated with representing something other than itself. To some extent, it has become practically as abstract as the letter, - we no longer remember why letters with a specific shape were suddenly invented. Just as we don't associate paint, for example, blue with the sky, but only with color." Raman Axionau works in performance, installation, video and various visual practices, and also works in an architecture and design studio. Roman Axionau's work deals with participatory practices in art sociology theory. He lives in Minsk, Belarus. Own exhibitions and projects: 2019 - ... - "Uncut", project after the exhibition "Organic Work", private space, Brest, Belarus 2019 - "Hole", performance, Masherova Avenue, Minsk, Belarus 2018-2019 - Online project on facebook platform "gallery without name and place" 2012 - "Immediate", Ў gallery, Minsk, Belarus Group exhibitions and projects: 2021 - "Every Day. Solidarity Art," Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
2020 - "Not / funny pictures", KH space, Brest, Belarus - "Cranial dystantsya", Ў gallery, Minsk, Belarus - "LIVE IN / LEAVING", international online project - "Autumn Salon 2020", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus - "Work more! Rest more! Test Test Test," Minsk, Belarus 2019 - "Status: the Vysnovas. How would you be with the Sonnii masters?", KH Space, Brest, Belarus - "Let's talk about death", private space, Brest, Belarus - "Work more! Rest more! Side touches," Minsk, Belarus
2019 - "Status: the Vysnovas. How would you be with the Sonnii masters?", KH Space, Brest, Belarus - "Let's talk about death", private space, Brest, Belarus - "Work more! Rest more! Side touches", Minsk, Belarus - "Organic work", private space, Brest, Belarus - "After party", Preserves space, Brest, Belarus - "Autumn Salon 2019", Minsk, Belarus - "Usse razam", OOKTs Exhibition Hall, Brest, Belarus
"Myazha", Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus 2018 - "Work more! Rest more! 2018", Minsk, Belarus - "1 performance, 1 film, 7 jackets, 14 drawings, 19 poems, 23 photos", private space, Brest, Belarus 2017 - "Work more! Rest more! Transmission", Minsk, Belarus 2014 - "Four Corners", Luda gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia - "Love to watch", Nepokorennykh 17, St. Petersburg, Russia 2011 - Presentation of the project "Immediately" within the Smart Art competition, Minsk, Belarus 2009 - "parazzzit in the Belarusian National Art Museum", within the project "parazzzit in the museums of the world", parazzzit gallery, Minsk, Belarus Education: - Minsk Art School named after A.K. Glebov (1999-2003) - Minsk State Academy of Arts (2004-2010).