Beginning 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper

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1 STANISLAV SVETA ZOE BENBOW YAVORSKY PLUTENKO

2 Sveta Yavorsky was born in Russia. She studied art and architecture at the Moscow University of Architecture before moving to London in 1992 as a fine artist. Her architectural training became an inspiration for geometric patterns within figurative compositions, and developed by closely observing Kandinsky s theory of colour. Yavorsky s worlds are arranged in tea leaves, swirling up some truly fantastic tales that merge and emerge like Scheherazade s neverending stories. The style embraces the semi-abstract method of composition that Malevich termed the additional element' of painting. The canvases are like glowing coals in their red-hot transparencies, magic carpet patterns embroider creatures that swim underwater. Perforations hang like flies stuck in amber, whilst spectral figures melt beside their stained glass horses. Like a palimpsest, here and there are traces of old faces, embalmed on waxy paper ruins. The moth-wing fragility of dusty landscapes surrounds bejewelled figures with tracing paper hands. Silvery machinery parts float like x-rays across boiling jam skies, a bright blue Bambi emerges like a lantern. These paintings are parchments torn from ancient manuscripts with their metallic lustre and inky camouflage. They buzz with coral birds, azure tigers and mohawked horses. Yavorsky s transparent animals are mottled and marbled with pale green veins, they appear like watercolours brushed over oil and gilded. Elegant, regal and illustrative, the works could have been made by Klimt wearing night-vision goggles, resembling the strange love child of Rothko and Banksy. Here, the contrast between the inner and outer world has been placed in careful balance, the subjects metamorphose into each other and their backgrounds. In Yavorsky s work, Time is suspended, an hourglass left lying on its side. Outside these windows, time is still dissolving grain by grain.

3 Beginning 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper Battle Raziel 100 x 71 cm Oil on canvas, 145 x 145 cm Pencil, coal on paper 2010

4 Golden Knight Oil on canvas, 150 x 75 cm 2010

5 Field 2 detail Oil on canvas, 100 x 195 cm 2011

6 Ganymede Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2011

7 Triton Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm 2011

8 Europa Oil on canvas,180 x 95 cm 2011

9 Dione detail 1 Oil on canvas, 180 x 195 cm 2011

10 Dione detail 2 Oil on canvas, 180 x 195 cm 2011

11 Sky Bird I Town Coast Bird Town Oil 110 on x canvas, cm x x cm 100 cm 2011 Mixed media Oil on on linen canvas canvas

12 Quicksilver Oil on canvas, 190 x 100 cm

13 Sulphur Oil on canvas, 185 x 100 cm

14 Azoth Oil on canvas, 185 x 100 cm

15 Antimony Oil on canvas, 190 x 100 cm

16 Evocation Oil on canvas, 185 x 100 cm

17 Magus Oil on canvas, 160 x 90 cm Adept Oil on canvas, 160 x 90 cm Apprentice Oil on canvas, 160 x 90 cm

18 Dissolution Oil on canvas, 95 x 180 cm

19 Separation Oil on canvas, 95 x 180 cm

20 1 st Horseman Oil on canvas, 100 x 190 cm

21 2 nd Horseman Oil on canvas, 100 x 190 cm

22 1 st Horseman (fragment) Purple Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

23 1 st Horseman (fragment) Maroon Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

24 1 st Horseman (fragment) Blue Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

25 1 st Horseman (fragment) Red Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

26 Horse 1 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

27 Horse 2 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

28 Horse 3 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

29 Horse 4 Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

30 Winged Leopard Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm

31 Winged Tiger Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm

32 Winged Panther Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm

33 Tree Oil on canvas, 180 x 95 cm

34 Knight Oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm

35 Selected Exhibitions Fine Arts Exhibition "Lucid Dreams" - Moorhouse Art and Hay Hill Gallery, London 2011 Moon Mages, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2010 Balman Gallery, Newcastle 2009 Winter exhibition, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2007 Mysteries, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2006 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2005 Cadogan Contemporary, London 2005 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2004 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2004 New Year Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2003 Cadogan Contemporary, London 2002 Bruton Street Gallery, London 2002 Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 2001 Cricket Hill Associates, New York 2000 Millenium Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1999 New Year Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1997 Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1996 Galerie Mikael, Strasbourg 1996 Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London 1996 Gallium Calerie, Antibes, France 1995 Cricket Hill Associates, New Yowk 1993 Cartoon Gallery, London 1992 Group Exhibition, Malaya Gruzinskaya, Moscow 1989 Moscow Days in Madrid 1989 Young Artist Exhibition, Amsterdam

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