Aleksandra JACHTOMA (b. 1932), Untitled, 2008

oil, canvas; 85 x 70 cm;
signed, dated and described on the reverse: ALEKSANDRA JACHTOMA /.
WYM. 85 X 70 / TECH. OIL / YEAR 10.06.2008.

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