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Sofia LECONTE-MITEV
Painter
During my studies, I was living on the 6th floor. By good weather, I was on the balcony and observing the life seen "from the top". I was struck by the shade of the passers by, which betrayed their age and their step.
By carrying out researchs on the symbolic of shade, it pointed up that for some Amerindian tribes, it is quite simply synonymous of the soul. At this time I started to stop myself on these elements we all run alongside without any glance.
The same applies to the cycle of architectures paintings where the reflections mix with reality until sometimes becoming indissociable.
Each day, I discover a little more this other vision of the world. I will not be able to say yet if it is untrue or on the contrary the most objective reality.
Between
reality and abstraction
What
impresses most in the artworks of the French artist Sofia Leconte Mitev
is the preciseness and attention to details with which she creates her
paintings.
Beyond the technical skills and within the eyes gaze, her works painted with oil or acrylic predispose to reflection and dream; the painter evokes the freedom of imagination amidst the strict and rigorous order of her works.Perturbing the reality outside the windowpanes, reversing the genuine sense of vision, the art painter alters the ordinary.
On
the “Passers-by” series, it seems that shadows replace humans to whom
they were supposed to be bound, which incites the inversion of visions
playing with the audience’s perception.
Then we consider the shadows importance during the centuries, remembering the words of Leonardo Da Vinci: “The first picture was the outline of the man’s shadow on the wall cast by the sun” or Plato’s philosophy with regard to the cavern allegory, as well as the Amerindians’ believe that the shadow is part of the soul.
This play with perception may also be found in her paintings of buildings’ reflections:
What do we observe? At first sight, the spectator would notice perspective errors and construction defects. Suddenly we realize why the windows are curved, why sometimes they hang on the sky. Then we perceive an escape towards the imaginary and a feeling of swinging between reality and abstraction.
Sofia
Leconte Mitev spreads this liberty of mind in her paintings of “Cities
at night”, giving the spectator an opportunity to interfere himself on
her art: most of them are painted in phosphorescent acrylic, so the
spectator can “switch” the light and observe a second painting in the
original one. An ephemeral artwork since it dies away in several
minutes, let differently lighted buildings reappear.
French
artist Sofia Leconte Mitev was rewarded for her paintings with many
prizes. The works have been exhibited in several galleries, as well as
rented for a lot of movies.