The Effect of Negative Positive

Gayrat Lekimovich Ibragimov was born in 1980. In 2000 he graduated from the P.P. Benkov Republican College of Art, and then in 2005 from the K. Behzad National Institute of Art and Design. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Artists' Association of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan.

2001      Taufkircher, Germany
2004      Artist in Residence at Federal Government House, Vienna, Austria
2005      Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2005      Gallery Olajfa Tuveszhaz Herd Hungary, , at the.
2008      Tashkent Photography House of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Tashkent,             Uzbekistan

I'd like to explain briefly what invert painting is and how I came to it. Basically, in my invert work the shadowy colours become luminous and the deep colours lighter, a bit like a colour negative in photography. Composition and form are also important, of course, but I think this aspect of my work is more interesting to me at the moment.

I think it was working in still life that revealed my own personal new wave of creative work, especially painting in colour. After a lot of trial and error invert painting just came to me. I would paint naturistically but from my own imagination, which for some reason gave me a colour negative image in my mind of the objects I was depicting. There was no special technology involved, just my own way of seeing things.

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