Georgii Uvs

GEORGII UVS: MESOZOIC. Let's start over!

23th April - 27th November 2022

Biennial Exhibition Personal Structures, Venice, Italy

Palazzo Bembo Riva del Carbon, San Marco 4793 - 30124 - Venezia

MESOZOIC. Let's start over!

Mesozoic. Let’s start over! is the 4st collaboration between International curator Ellen Nash and London based abstract artist Georgii Uvs.

Ellen Nash has a Master degree in History of Art. Her each project it is a reflection of the the reality analysed through the history of art and different cultures. She was born in Armenia, grew up in Russia, studied in the US. Live and work all over the world.

A distinctive feature of the collaboration between the curator and the artist is the search for truth, study of the existence and always a philosophical beginning.

Uvs and Nash admits that they never specifically comes up with themes for the works and projects. Information comes to Uvs and burns him until he splashes it onto the canvas. Uvs calls himself a conductor who is obliged to convey information to humanity through his artistic skill. Ellen Nash is the one who is translating it and creating a concept.

A few weeks before sending art works to Venice Ellen Nash rewrote and developed a radically different concept for the project in Venice. Artist and Curator decided to change their point of view and follow the advice of the curator of the main project of the 59th Venice Art Biennale.

Cecilia Alemani in her letter to the artists, asked to strive for optimism and celebrate art and its ability to create alternative cosmologies and new conditions of existence.

MESOZOIC. Let's start over! is and art project including 4 art works of Georgii Uvs. Uvs created a series of art works Mesozoic in 2016-2017. These are bright layers of color on the canvas, consisting of a continuous color line, reminiscent of Mesozoic landscapes.

The Mesozoic is an era of tectonic, climatic and evolutionary activity. At this time, the formation of the main contours of modern continents and mountain building on the periphery of the oceans take place. By the end of the Mesozoic era, the main part of the species diversity of life approached its modern state.

We live in a very difficult historical time. But while we are alive and all is not lost, we can turn the page and start all over again. This applies to all areas of our life. We can start building a new world. Our reality is born first in our head. So let's pretend we're in the Mesozoic era and let’s start over.

Uvs’ activity is metaphysics, a battlefield where the answers to the questions of human existence go beyond all conceivable experiences and forms. The artist never knows what awaits him at the end of this transcendental experience. He works alone, giving himself completely to the question. Uvs paints his works without touching the canvas, or with any artistic instruments. He keeps the technique of applying paints on his canvas a secret.

Uvs uses an ultraviolet pigment, which gives a sucking effect of the depth of work under the UV light. His art works are two-faced. Like in nature, they have sunset and sunrise, day and night. Sometimes, what the artist hides under ordinary lighting to protect his viewer, comes to life under the UV light.

Uvs’ art is like a crown of thorns, sometimes it can scratch very painfully. But  the artist exposes his soul to the colours, and that is why they are revealed to him with such sincerity.

The colours that the artist uses certainly matter - they are not giving the opportunity to understand ambiguously. The colours that the artist uses in the series Mesozoic are bright, pure, cheerful. Green color has always personified life, health, wisdom. Yellow and orange are the colours of the sun, the source of life on earth.

Curator Ellen Nash and artist Georgii Uvs filled their project MESOZOIC. Let's start over! with hope for a better future.

While we still have a chance, let's start over!