Jan Astner at First Floor Gallery
Tranquilidad is in Spanish “Peace”, “peace of mind”, “harmony”.
Light, toned down, attracting sensual and sensitive colors. A world of changeability and constancy, a shimmering depth that releases the imagination. Very personal, evoking your own, individual, only known associations and experiences, they surround us in a natural way, they surround us, but at the same time they are simple, easy and gentle to absorb. They penetrate us. You can wake up to them, look for solace in them, calm down …
Let us choose our own, unique peace. Maybe celadon, gas, light, floating in the space of the imagination, transparent scarves, maybe seaweed, which gently leaving the sea on the shore? Or the garden of gingerbread spices: colors that smell of cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel? There are as many possibilities as many pairs of eyes accepting this world of harmony, so let us turn to him to bring a smile of satisfaction on our face …
Jan Astner at First Floor Gallery
This idea covers the process of creating pictures in which the artist, starting from a private feeling, individual emotions, wants to encode and recreate them in his pictures. He uses abstract painting as a medium. His abstract forms pulsate with rhythm, emanate moods and create tension. He uses abstract forms to present his feelings: oval, meandering lines, soft tonal transitions and subdued colors. The simplicity of the form and its lightness allude to the theme. “Tranquilidad” in Spanish means “peace”, “tranquility”.
The means chosen by the painter help to achieve the goal he set for himself. The artist stimulates the imagination with his every work, inspires reflection and encourages searching. Abstract forms of overlapping ovals, intertwining lines, do not mean an unambiguous, easy to convey and receive message. On the contrary: the basis for choosing such a catalog of forms lies in a private, even intimate abstract idea. The metaphor used by Jan gives enormous possibilities both for creating new artworks in the TRANQUILIDAD series and for their interpretation by the viewers.
Jan Astner’s abstract forms language is abstractly multi-layered and ambiguous. The author, with the help of painting symbols, presents a variety of emotions associated with the concept of peace, tranquility. He engages in a discussion with the recipients of his works about what is important in their everyday life. The abstract representation of the state of emotions in a painting is characteristic of abstract painting and is often presented in abstract emotional expressionism. The idea of bstract painting assumes resignation from the use of representational forms, borrowings from the real world. In this way, the artist is given the freedom to choose thematic threads. The artist is free to use abstract forms and use them to communicate emotions and moods.
