Anna Divan (pseud. of Anna Sirota, Moscow 1974) is graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Italy (Master, 2016), at the Cyprus College of Art (Postgraduate diplom, 2009), and in Restoration and Painting at the Baron Schtiglitz Academy of Art and Design of St. Petersburg (2007).
She has partecipated in numerous international exhibitions such as: Biennale of Montone (2012), Spazi d‘Arte, Florence (2015), Artfair of Padova (2017), Artists in the world, Roma, Lagoon passage,Venice, Art Salon, Mosca, Expo fair of Milan (2019).
Her aestetich researches in painting find inspiration in different avanguard stiles like Abstract Expressionism, Poor Art, Ugle Art ecc. and at the same time in the ancient Eurooean and Russian sacred techniques. Ancient and modern are temporal poles united in the natural desire to explore the material of life.
Her art wants to be a battlefield for the existance and conscience in search of a yearning for the future through controversial impulses that she defines: „Armies of knowledge and intuition that often turn against each other.“
Anatomy, biology and psychology as the cornstones of the contemporary researches are hidden within her artistic ways, called to recognize the archetipes and mysteries of human history.
Erica Faccioli (Vicenza), art critic.
Intensity and lightness marry the pictorial vision of Divan with the material and spiritual dimensions. The tactile sinesthesia of concentration binds to the cloncrete perception and to the profound onirism of the unconscious and at the same time the nuance of colors rises from the tran- sitoriness of material mortification to the cathartic transcendence of light.
The mystery of infinity that impregnates finitude is in the human power of generativity as its own conquest of eternal life.
Fulvia Minetti (Rome), art critic.
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