A D E L I N A I V A N
 
n e w s
b i o g r a p h y
c o n t a c t
  
w o r k s
left square right square
alter body
circling
self portrait
hello vera
black squares
cuts
white fold
journal of grids and signs
to restore
frugalitas, severitas, fidelis
atena adjusting her sandal
the color of geometry
black on white
deconstructed squares
objects of cohesion
time delusion
structures
rebar
albedo
I love to protect myself
textile works
window installation
separated objects
 
l i n k s
p u b l i c a t i o n s

 

 

The color of geometry - Jean Claude Maier Gallery Frankfurt (2017)

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The color of geometry - JEAN CLAUDE MAIER Gallery Frankfurt, 2017

Text: Adriana Ledecouvreur

Where does a circle begin? Where does a square end? And for that matter, where does the mesh begin or end?
All life forms are the mesh, and so are all the dead ones, as are their habitats, which are also made up of living and nonliving beings. We know even more now about how life forms have shaped Earth (think of oil, of oxygen—the first climate change cataclysm). We drive around using crushed dinosaur parts. Iron is mostly a by-product of bacterial metabolism.
So is oxygen. Mountains can be made of shells and fossilized bacteria. (...) The mesh consists of infinite connections and infinitesimal differences.*
This is not an exhibition, this is an illustration of interconnectedness. It is a conjuration of shapes, textures, volumes, thoughts, information, sensations, discipline, cellulose, dust, objects, debris, scrapings, invisible configurations and visible compositions.

Gestalt.
Adelina Ivan, an abstraction habitué, fluently operates with the construction-deconstruction binary. Her intention seems to be to challenge the concept of morphogenesis**, the processes that generate shapes and structures. She takes on a given form and speculates its potentiality until new objects emerge with their own material and aesthetic logics.
Reading these productions is a question of individual experience and worldliness.

I am the prophet and you are me.

* Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010, p. 29
** from Greek morphê, shape and genesis, creation; the beginning of the shape.