Ivan Alifan

Contemporary Figurative painter Ivan Alifan describes his work as ‘the balance of innocence and corruption’. Vaguely sexual components disrupt and provoke an immediate response from the viewer, naturalizing the modern gaze and modernizing sex in art. The Russian-Canadian’s ambiguous subjectivism anticipates a reaction from the viewer, whether embarrassed, nervous, or aroused with the intention to break down the barriers of the body’s different modes that exist in our social spheres and contemporary art. Alifan generally paints in oil on canvas or Russian Traditionalism in which he bridges his heritage with his contemporary style.

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