Tania Rivilis

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Pensive man in a straw hat.
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm

By Tania Rivilis

As subject, Tania chose a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh, a Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat titled “obverse: The Potato Peeler” which serves as both spark and origin.

Tania wanted to carry over not only the summer palette and the sweeping, unrestrained brushstrokes that seem to follow the form rather than simply cover it, but also the pensive gaze, the faint melancholy, and the sense of a body slightly withdrawn from the surrounding noise and movement.

Beneath this painting lies an earlier, unsuccessful attempt—a reworked image that never quite resolved itself. Tania likes feeling its presence under the surface, this “error” that, much like in the spirit of kintsugi, becomes not a defect but a unique trace of the process, a fracture that quietly enriches the life of the portrait.

This work will together with 7 others be part of our new group show “Constructed Realities”,

The show opens Saturday the 20th. from 12 - 2 pm.