Award-winning abstract artist Viktoria Ganhao was born in 1971 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She was raised in an artistic family, and her creativity was encouraged from an early age.
She worked in the Fashion Industry for 17 years, pursued an entrepreneurial career, lived in 7 countries, and traveled worldwide. In 2016 she decided to focus on becoming a full-time artist.
As an avid traveler, Viktoria uses all new experiences as the most significant inspiration for her paintings. Her series of abstract artworks are a collection of memories, feelings, and emotions gathered during her travels. Every artwork she creates is a way to pay homage to unique places she has been to, transforming them into a journey of storytelling and memoir. However, the abstract nature of her art invites the viewer to develop their interpretation of the work. "Each painting has a story to be discovered."
Her painting process is intuitive and begins with a palette of colors and a range of tools, intending to make ground and texture, then continues with adding several layers and colors, switching from brushes to palette knives, using a wide range of mediums and tools.
She enjoys creative freedom in this way of working because she believes that art is about freedom. Her innovative, open mind doesn't allow her to work in only one style or technique, despite her works always having a commonality.
She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, participated in art fairs and festivals, and continues to be active in showing her art to a different audience, as viewers' feedback is always a huge source of inspiration.
A FORM OF LIFE
“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.” ― Cy Twombly
A form of abstract life concretizes the perception of the mental image through a morphingof possibilities, solidifying it on the retina for fractions of a second, minutes, or even hours. It's a poetic discourse.
In Viktoria Ganhao's work, we encounter the matter of Cy Twombly's flowers, the light of Tiepolo's skies, the composition of certain views by Monet, and the expressionistic language of Joan Mitchell. A cascade of visual possibilities that the vigorous strokes of her brush and palette knife freeze in time, transforming the canvas into a subjective perceptual mirror. The artist's ability to catalyse her inner experience, daily life, the symbolism of totemic objects, the natural context in which she moves and lives, the sensory impression of the landscapes she explores while traveling, and transform it into a "positive" work of comparison for the audience, which, lovingly directed, has the opportunity to open the space of the mind and translate this composition into their own original sensory experience. In this way, abstract painting may be defined as figurative as it activates concrete images but also as a container of emotions in a "form" of color. Ganhao’s experience of painting practice is layered on multiple levels enriching the fluid narrative with details and insights, always remaining astonishing and metamorphic over time.
Viktoria Ganhao is a vital force. She believes in freedom and in the joy of living, her feeling is the explosion of a creative Supernova of new elements, an expanding expressive Big Bang that desires to involve people permeating their substance with light and wonder. The freedom to let others see and feel differently from oneself is a form of ethical education through tolerance with the ultimate goal of promoting humanity's evolution towards peace and the common good. The artist's sensitivity is accessible. Her proposal is gentle, non-intrusive, welcoming.
Her suggestions enter the soul effortlessly.
Barbara Fragogna, 2024
UNA FORMA DI VITA
“Immagnare un linguaggio è come immaginare una forma di vita.” ― Cy Twombly
Una forma di vita astratta concretizza in un “morphing” di possibilità la percezione dell’immagine mentale, cristallizzandola sulla retina per frazioni di secondo, minuti oppure ore. È un discorso poetico.
Nel lavoro di Viktoria Ganhao troviamo la materia dei fiori di Cy Twombly, la luce dei cieli di Tiepolo, la composizione di certe vedute di Monet e il linguaggio espressionista di Joan Mitchell. Una cascata di possibilità visive che i vigorosi tratti del pennello e della spatola fermano nel tempo trasformando la tela in uno specchio percettivo soggettivo. La capacità dell’artista di catalizzare nella pittura il suo vissuto interiore, l’esperienza quotidiana, il simbolismo degli oggetti totemici, il contesto naturale nel quale si muove e vive, l’impressione sensoriale dei paesaggi che esplora viaggiando, e di trasformarlo in un’opera “positiva” di confronto per il pubblico che, indirizzato amorevolmente, ha la possibilità di aprire lo spazio della mente e di tradurre questa composizione in un vissuto sensoriale proprio e originale. In questo modo la pittura astratta è figurativa in quanto attivatrice di immagini concrete ma anche come contenitore di emozioni in “forma” di colore. L’esperienza della pratica pittorica si stratifica su più livelli arricchendo la narrazione fluida di dettagli e spunti, restando sempre stupefacente e metamorfica nel tempo.
Viktoria Ganhao è una bomba vitale, crede nella libertà e nella gioia di vivere, il suo sentire è l’esplosione di una supernova creatrice di nuovi elementi, un big bang espressivo in espansione che desidera coinvolgere le persone permeandole di luce e stupore. La libertà di lasciare liberi di vedere e sentire diversamente da sé è una forma di educazione etica alla tolleranza con il fine ultimo di favorire un’evoluzione dell’umanità verso la pace e il bene comune. La sensibilità dell’artista è a disposizione. La sua proposta è gentile, non invadente, è accogliente. I suoi suggerimenti entrano senza fatica nell’animo.
