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In- Gate Gallery is pleased to present the solo show by Anatoly Akue Meeting with Your Nature: The Presence, on view from September 29 until November 19, 2022. The installation creates a sematic sequence for the first part of the exhibition project – Meeting with Your nature: The Ground.Both installations are united by their main idea and concept and present the works of Anatoly Akue (b. 1986) - artist of street art, painter, graphic artist, who lives and works in Montenegro. For his second exhibition with the gallery the artist showcases paintings, drawings and digital works created between 2017 and 2022.
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Anatoly Akue. Illusion of time. The Guest Series. 2017
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The exhibited works are inspired by the main ideas of Buddhism that show a way of existence in the space that comprises all phenomena. These ideas are love and sympathy, rousing the artist’s desire to share and interact with the environment, to impart his knowledge and the joy of discovery that he experiences.In abstract compositions, the artist remains at the level of his innermost feelings, personal experience and emotions. In figurative works, he addresses the viewer, switching to a language of specific symbols and signs that is clearer for an outsider, and developing the narrative with evocative shapes and familiar images.
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The diptych Meeting with Your Nature (2017) was inspired with Anatoly Akue’s stay and work of in the monastery headed by one of the lamas of Karma Kagyu lineage in Nepal. “The tremendous work on decorating the walls and practice rooms gave me a creative boost and inspired me much more than any of contemporary art exhibitions,” recalls the artist, sharing his experience.On the left side of the painting, abstract shapes invading the monastery symbolize a practicing disciple who begins his path with offerings. The closer he gets to the main luminous figure on the right side of the diptych, the less artificial are his movements, his behavior, and his consciousness. Some distance remains between the newcomer and the host, showing the path of awareness and practice lying ahead.
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"Meeting with Your Nature", 2017, mixed media on canvas, 150x 400 cm, fragments
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"Inner Offering" in progress, 2022, artist's studio
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"Inner offering, outer offering", 2022, mixed media on canvas, diptych, 204 x 154 cm each partThe exhibited works are inspired by the main ideas of Buddhism that show a way of existence in the space that comprises all phenomena. These ideas are love and sympathy, rousing the artist’s desire to share and interact with the environment, to impart his knowledge and the joy of discovery that he experiences.In abstract compositions, the artist remains at the level of his innermost feelings, personal experience and emotions. In figurative works, he addresses the viewer, switching to a language of specific symbols and signs that is clearer for an outsider, and developing the narrative with evocative shapes and familiar images.
- "Inner offering, outer offering", 2022, mixed media on canvas, diptych, fragments
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A series of graphic works that formed the basis for a collection of limited edition prints is presenting a visualization of various emotions and states of consciousness, including anger, fear, absolute peace, and openness to knowledge and experience of spontaneous revelations. With semi-abstract images, Anatoly Akue highlights the relativity and duality of perception, exploring vast variety of possibilities for experiencing diverse feelings and states of mind.
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The project Meeting with your Nature is a dialogue between the author and the viewer about peculiarities of human perception of reality and diverse interpretations of reality by human mind.
The artist’s reflections encompass the interconnection and interdependence of phenomena as one of their central subject. As a conscious being, the individual is included in the universal system of movement and functioning of natural processes as a natural phenomenon and also a part of the nature’s structure as a necessary element of its balance.
“There is no such point in the existence that I can’t accept. If to really follow this direction. If not to be afraid of changes hoping that everything is and will be the same, no, the only way is to go there and interact with the world of existence. Then the experience and the sense of the existence will always be even wider, even bigger, even more complete. It's just limitless, it can't really be limited in any logical, intellectual way.” A.Akue
Anatoly Akue. Meeting with your Nature: The Presence
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