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International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2014, on view at Christie’s in Gallery 6, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, from July 9 July 16, 2014. Gallery hours are 10am 5pm, Monday-Saturday
and 1pm 5pm on Sunday. The exhibition consists of ninety-eight projects by eighty-five artists originally included in New Prints 2014/Winter and New Prints 2014/Summer at IPCNY. The New Prints Program is comprised of a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY three times each year featuring prints from all sources made within the past twelve months.

http://www.ipcny.org/node/2552

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The graphic sheets of Darina Peeva are a good example of how behind even the most peculiar and seemingly arbitrary game of the fantastic and the illusionary, stands an orderly system, precisely traced interrelations, a balance, which is preset at every moment and at every point, an outline of associative chains and their interruption. In this particular case this means composing graphically developed photographic images; a combination of different surfaces and “matters”, precise rhythmization of geometrical elements, using a central compositional accent. The title is also situated in this perspective: the series Foreign Intervention, includes in its mathematically calculated world empty circles, in which the fine game of the geometrical forms is “penetrated” in its specifics. As a result, the “circles” become a center of different projections: projections of matters, projections of interruptions, projections of “differences”. Thus the circular incisions create spaces between the spaces. The aggression of the “foreign” against the as stated in the title, becomes a complex game of transitions.

It is not a coincidence that one of the traces in the meaning of the “empty space” leads to the phenomenological process of the choice as an esthetic act: the empty space is the ever unknown component of the artifact, which each individual perception fills in based on the experience, its situation, its individual choice. The circle, however, is a simple hermeneutic figure expressing the dynamic transition between the individual specifics and the abstract unattainable completeness- a figure of the wholeness.

The effect of the all-possible interlacing designs in the graphics of Darina Peeva is also achieved through this “geometrical” dynamics: in the amplitudes between the “folded” and the “flat” sections, in the relief development of household specifics(cutlery, a chair covered with drapery or a piece of clothing, a bed) amidst the abstract spaces and shadows.

Assoc Prof Dr Galina Lardeva Art Historian Artistic Director of the National Autumn Exhibitions 2013