Ellen de Brujne Projects: Ola Vasiljeva : 17 October - 21 November Alchimie Du Verbe - Ola Vasiljeva

Ola Vasiljeva has a show in Amsterdam.
She and her work are so lovely.
We were able to show some of her work at Beyond Eden recently. See install shots below. For more images please check our website under past shows "Dream Sequence".

For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable.

What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints; old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, silly old songs, the nave rhythms of country rimes.

I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents: I used to believe in every kind of magic...

I got used to elementary hallucination: I could very precisely see a mosque instead of a factory, a drum corps of angels, horse carts on the highways of the sky, a drawing room at the bottom of a lake; monsters and mysteries; a vaudeville's title filled me with awe. *

Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia 1981) lives and works in Amsterdam. She is one of the founders of the Oceans Academy of Arts and the publisher of the OAOA magazine. Her work was recently on display at the Beyond Eden Art Fair in Los Angeles, Gallery Art Since the Summer of '69 in NYC and at the Portland Institute For Contemporary Art. Currently Vasiljeva is a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten.

www.olabrothers.com

*text quoted from Rimbaud's A Season in Hell: Alchemy of the word as translated by Paul Schmidt. Image by Jean Cocteau