Art: Une boule sous la jupe d'Eiffel, Paris by Boré IvanoffA portrait of the artist as an artist
When I first wake, the bed is already in the other room. A streetcar. A candle falls into the fire. In the next dream, a trestle bridge does nothing. The stream is at the lowest part of the valley. Après une petit-dejeuner, je vais à petite café avec ma petite amie. We take a chair from one of the other tables.
In the library, a book lies on its back in the sun by the telephone. The stage collapses and several birds begin singing. I wake up, finally; the computer screen flickers. With a pen, I draw a circle around it, and the dream is over, though I still sleep. When the phone rings, it’s somebody else.
The grey cat sleeps on the toilet tank next to the sink under the window. Lunch is chips and coffee. Ich bin mir einschlafen ins Strassenbahn und traume das Ich ins Strassenbahn reise. The grey cat jumps down. At the next stop, I get back on and immediately wake up with a ticket stub in my pocket. The sidewalk is swept every morning. The birds sing. In a book, a phone sits on the table. It’s three o’clock.
About the author:
Boré Ivanoff. Eastern European- born, contemporary, protean artist, based in Paris since 2001. Since 2012 he paints exclusively Paris. Parisian views, ‘jamais vu’ motives are his special feature, blurring the line between abstraction and realism. For Boré Paris it’s the kind of place that offers the right combination of inspiration and pain and suffering to keep him stimulated and painting. Independent and self-confident, with a remarkable ability to surprise and intrigue the viewer … he prefers the enigmatic, the unconventional, and the unexpected. His work is precise, yet it teeters on the threshold of delirium and chaos. He brings outrageous levels, of pictorial realization to his work. His compositions are a sophisticated exercise in the manipulation of form, keyed-up color, density, illusionism, brushwork, and compression. The interior and the exterior merge to produce a single image whose
complexities are almost impossible to untangle. The result is which the abstract nearly trumps the real. Boré wants to see how far he can push reality to the other side where the “real” is still recognizable, but becoming totally abstract, building that tension until they are just one and the same.
Art: Une boule sous la jupe d'Eiffel, Paris by Boré Ivanoff
In the artist's words:
Boré Ivanoff. Eastern European- born, contemporary, protean artist, based in Paris since 2001. Since 2012 he paints exclusively Paris. Parisian views, ‘jamais vu’ motives are his special feature, blurring the line between abstraction and realism. For Boré Paris it’s the kind of place that offers the right combination of inspiration and pain and suffering to keep him stimulated and painting. Independent and self-confident, with a remarkable ability to surprise and intrigue the viewer … he prefers the enigmatic, the unconventional, and the unexpected. His work is precise, yet it teeters on the threshold of delirium and chaos. He brings outrageous levels, of pictorial realization to his work. His compositions are a sophisticated exercise in the manipulation of form, keyed-up color, density, illusionism, brushwork, and compression. The interior and the exterior merge to produce a single image whose
complexities are almost impossible to untangle. The result is which the abstract nearly trumps the real. Boré wants to see how far he can push reality to the other side where the “real” is still recognizable, but becoming totally abstract, building that tension until they are just one and the same.
