Aleksandra JACHTOMA (b. 1932), Untitled, 1969

gouache, oil, paper, 41 x 29 cm (light frame);
Signed and dated p. d.: A. JACHTOMA 1969 (in pencil).

PROVENANCE:
- Purchase from the artist
- Private collection, Poland.

Color in Aleksandra Jachtoma's paintings is the
the most important thing. In an attempt to find the right
for emotion, she applies many layers of paint to an
ultimately textureless canvas, which only after
its proper processing, as she herself says, "takes on air
air" and can be considered a work of art. Otherwise it is
just paint squeezed out of a tube and a subpainting, not perfect color,
to the study of which she has devoted nearly 60 years of creative work.
In the documentary she recalls: "Painting is a constant
struggle with paint to turn it into color." The search
involves many layers of thin, almost laser-like
laid down successive colors, on their surprising combinations
- where he often tries to reconcile his two favorite
colors he favors: blue and red. "I think art is not
to be understood, it's to be absorbed". - he mentions in the material
video. Therefore, two more factors are necessary
exceptionally important in Aleksandra Jachtoma's paintings - orderliness
and luminosity.
Devoid of chaos - energetic brushstrokes
The painter's canvases balance between colorism and geometric abstraction
geometric quietly asking for a moment of contemplation and an attempt to
experience what an aesthetic experience is.