Alena Trubitsyna’s graphic art is an outstanding example of contemporary art brut. The artist deliberately refuses the classical art approach, since in her oeuvre because her creative interest lays in the area of the unconscious. Furthermore, that led her to the idea that only Primitivist style would be able to fulfil her artistic needs in this area.
An interesting example of such creative searches is the series “Ink Creatures”. In it, Trubitsyna clearly turns to the legacy of surrealism. But unlike the artists of the Surrealist movement, you used the method of automatic writing, she embraces and masters the automatic drawing. By doing that she illustrates Andre Breton’s manifesto, which unpacks the categories of dream reality and unconsciousness. This way the artist joins the creative adventure of depicting the ephemera, which had been started more than a century ago.
However, it is not only the surrealistic motives that we see in these drawings. The monochromatic series is also a visual reference to the Russian conceptual artist D.A. Prigov, who based most of his visual art on a limited number of colors (black, white, red). He preferred to use the symbol of the eye of the Omniscience in his installations. Unlike Prigov Trubitsyna prefers more chamber format. She also makes the eye motive multiple, in order to create a sense that an inner world being is watching the spectator. The way she places her characters on a blank sheet of paper reminds us of the post-digital aesthetics, with its Photoshop references.
Thus, we can summarize that Alena Trubitsyna is an original artist with a clear creative strategy. She masterfully navigates among the concepts developed before her and adapts them to her own needs, introducing a recognizable author’s style.
