‘The birth of an idea’
An art show by Ida Ivanka in honour of Paul Huntington
Dates: 8th October – 10th November 2024
Location: Westbourne Grove Church Artspace, London W11 2RW (Notting Hill)
Opening times:
Monday through Friday from 9am to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday (for the duration of the art show) from 11am to 8pm
Organic in appearance and abstract in presence this series feature simple circle settings consisting of an abundance of painted and sculptured silk cocoons positioned on large canvases. Using what she calls “imaginative touch”, Ida transforms the cocoons from their original identity into transcendent assemblages of colours.
Capturing the beauty of transformation, the empty cocoon represents the completed process of change and its success. The brightness of the colours celebrates the transition from one state of being to another and honours its glorious unfoldment. The arrangement of the cocoons within the circular shape represents unity and connection. The contrast in colours creates a centre point on which to focus the mind. It is within the cocoon, in isolation and in silence, that the metamorphosis happens. This is true for the human mind as well. Similar to a mandala and its incredible potential to assist in the practice of meditation, the Birth of an Ideas series expands on this tool by incorporating nature into its structure. As such, the viewer enters and experiences the artwork, be it consciously or in a trance-like state, and is encouraged to pause and remember the healing power of stillness and silence that resides within each of us.
Ida has worked internationally often at her art collector’s locations and her artworks found home in the UK, Guernsey, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Bulgaria, Spain, India, Netherlands, Australia and the USA.
CAN THE FUTURE HELP THE PAST?
An artwork is not essential but the feeling of it is.
Let me take you on a trip! Let’s desert the mundane and go after the light!
On this trip let’s figure it out: Can the Future help the Past?
From South to North in Europe: from the mountains of Thrace to the Vikings land’s aurora borealis and everything in-between.
From North to South in the US: from the corn fields in lowa to the sunsets in Key West, the southernmost city, and everything in-between.
We are free to travel in time. For me it starts in childhood with the dove song under the mulberry trees in grandma’s garden.
The moment for a trip is always now.
THERE ARE TWO LIFE ROLES: ARE YOU AN ARTIST OR A MUSE?
Uprooted we can break through our own cocoons, be reborn and revealed!
The spread open cocoon captures the beauty of transformation, it represents the completed process of change and its success.
The brightness of the colors celebrates the transition from one state of being to another and honours its glorious unfoldment. The arrangement of the cocoons within the circular shape represents unity and connection. The contrast in colors creates a center point on which to focus the mind. It is within the cocoon, in isolation and in silence, that the metamorphosis happens. This is true for the human mind as well.
The open cocoon can mean also: here I am from, here I feel safe! Each cocoon symbolises an individual. Each individual draws a parallel meaning in life. Each parallel has the same value as the other.
Only with the presence of each of these equal parallel meanings and values, the artwork is complete.
