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Hi! My name is Irina Metz, I am a visual artist based in Yerevan, Armenia. I was blessed to study at the studios of the most distinguished contemporary impressionists in Russia and Italy. My art is dedicated to concept of Happiness as perceived by ordinary people representing various cultures around the world. I am studying visual content that bears universal code of inner peace and joy. The metamodernist image of Blue Bird helps me to convey this concept. It is either present on the canvas or lives outside of it as a sensation, as a harbinger of hope and happiness. I travel a lot around the world collecting my personal mosaics of cultural signs from various nations in search of parallels that unite seemingly distant people.

How would you describe your work to someone seeing it for the first time?

The main ingredient of my work is light. My main intention is to bring the sense of happiness and tranquility into modern dynamic world. Gentle strokes of oil paints are smoothly interacting with each other on the canvas telling the story of each piece and inviting the audience to contemplate and look inside themselves.

What and which artists have influenced your work?

My art was largely influenced by world-renowned impressionists including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Monet, Edgar Degas, Konstantin Korovin, Zinaida Serebryakova and Igor Grabar’ along with contemporary artists Bato Dugarzhapov, Svetlana Perotti, Paul Paiement, Gala Museridze, Svetlana Rumak and esthetics of photographer Kisetsu Kajin. 

If you could collaborate with any artist past or present, who would you select and why?

Among all artists I would be very much interested to collaborate with Míla Fürstová. The mesmerizing stories unfolding in her art make me hold my breath and dive into the world of female dreams and realities. Numerous metaphorical layers are artfully conveyed by the artist through combination of natural and man-made elements of a woman’s daily life and soul. She is often turning to the image of birds complementing the sensation of Hope aroused by her art. I believe that working on a project together with Míla would allow both of us discover additional angles and approaches to study and depict female identity. 

私はまた、ルイーズ・エルドリッヒを、アメリカ先住民起源の最も著名な現代作家の一人に挙げたいと思います。彼女の小説「Love Medicine」、「The Porcupine Year」、「The Blue Jay's Dance」は、著者が幸福を求めて複雑な登場人物をどのように描写しているかに深く感銘を受けました。彼女の作品は、問題に特化した私の言語学の博士論文の中心となりました。私は、人間の幸福への普遍的な鍵を反映するものとして、ネイティブ アメリカンのモノ神話におけるブルーバードのイメージの役割を研究する一連の絵画を計画しています。エルドリッヒ女史の意見と芸術的ビジョンは、このシリーズのコンセプトの貴重な部分となるでしょう。

What can we expect to see from you in the future?

Right now I am working on a series “Under the Bluebird Skies” that includes paintings and panels of mixed media: oil, acrylic, paper, sand, wood, ash, resin, plastic, etc. United by one theme these works are my glimpse of what true and illusionary Happiness can mean nowadays. Hope, home, purity, love, prosperity, aspirations and achievements are portrayed as eternal values from various perspectives. Combination of traditional and modern techniques, natural and synthetic materials allows pursue of Happiness in my art guide the audience on a journey towards one’s true inner self.

私のトップ5のアートワーク

1 - Garden of Light, 2017, oil on canvas

2 - Woke Up Too Early For Love, 2022, oil on canvas

3 - チェリージャムの香り、2023、キャンバスに油彩

4 - 反射、2017、キャンバスに油彩

5 - Hortensia Morning Dreams, 2016, oil on canvas