ELA WIATR

 ELA WIATR AS AN OBJECT OF ART, courtesy of MoMA, NYC

We have to admit it; frankly, ELAWIATR is the best artist of the young generation. She is a cheeky artist; a one of a kind artist. It’s no secret that ELAWIATR creates New Renaissance Art and her own self-aesthetic. For several years, young artists have been trying to imitate newspapers, advertisements, television, stars, images and objects. The interest in banality has actually become a valid and fixed standard. But what differs ELAWIATR from other artist is the fact that she creates a new and authentic personality, with the use of appropriate measures. She plays with art and she is both as an artist and as art herself at the same time. Everything she does is balanced and considered carefully. Sometimes, instead of a ‘total artist’, she is thought to be a ‘total businesswoman’. ELAWIATR began her artistic career in 1988, when she was born. After she won some awards during the International Biennial of Drawing; an exhibition where ELAWIATR was the brain and spiritus movens. After some time, she decided to open her own gallery in a very specific place. There hasn’t been any exhibition yet. The young and ambitious artist, who dominated the art scene for several years was and still is attacked from all sides. According to many critics, ELAWIATR's style is to shock without a grain of reflection, and to pay attention on herself. ELAWIATR is the exact opposite of those artists who build their careers deepening their skills, observations and the topic of their work very slowly and laboriously. ELAWIATR was in the spotlight at a very young age and she now invests in her own artistic development more and more firmly. She focuses striking and effective actions on herself. She has participated in the most famous exhibitions all over the world. Her name became a brand. She is criticized for dehumanization and obsessive self-centeredness. Traditionalists and conservatives accuse her of immorality, saying that she undermines values. Her works are considered to be incomplete and even completely devoid of workmanship. It is true that ELAWIATR expresses a crisis in traditional art. Nevertheless, she is not the reason, but only a messenger of the bad news. But do those grim and strange themes indicate that art is worthless? The artist’s narcissistic tendencies make her works convincing. ELAWIATR shows the spirit of the times, and therefore, her works emanate the power of expression. ELAWIATR rejects traditional approaches of artistic expression. However, she will always remain faithful to New Renaissance painting. Sometimes, she prefers to show reality rather than reflect it through a picture or a sculpture. She deals with traditional motives of art simultaneously. Changing the perception of reality seems to be the main issue of contemporary culture, and ELAWIATR does so as she makes her life, particularly her artistic life, as art. However, an artist’s work is not only a perverse reversal of artistic activity. An artist wants to touch the truth of the presence. An artist wants to touch something so that death, sex and intimacy become more important. In a sense, ELAWIATR creates a new language of expression for a new spirit of time; beauty of mystery.
However, I think that the attitude/creation of ELAWIATR is thoroughly unique, perhaps because of the fact that her art reflects a specific way of life perception as a sequence of simple facts that cannot be changed.