Vittoria Aina Ainimo

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b. 1977, Kazakhstan
Painter
Residence: Järvenpää

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Phone number: +358440 186931
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After graduating from university with a degree in painting in 2016, Vittoria Ainimo continued as a teaching assistant in Jan Eerik Kulberg’s workshop at the same university. During her studies, the focus was on acquiring academic knowledge in painting and anatomical drawing. A significant number of lessons with Gennadi Manasherov, a professor at the Russian Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin, as well as studies at the Latvian Academy of Arts and Vladimir Kozin’s private school in Riga, contributed to this. The amount of academic knowledge and skills acquired provided not only freedom and accessibility of means and ease of achieving goals but also strict internal boundaries that constrained the creative process. Reevaluating and partially resetting her artistic identity required a long period of silence.
During that time, the artist worked in the theater as a set and costume designer for children’s plays.
In recent years, there has been a need to reflect on questions of spiritual self-sufficiency – transferring spiritual sources from the outside inward and the possibility of reflecting these processes in creativity. The construction material for Vittoria Ainimo’s works began to be both the reorientation of life values due to the death of her closest person and the layer of medieval art, especially musical works and their modern interpretation (Gregorian chant, the works of Arvo Pärt, etc.). The ideas of minimizing artistic means and visual asceticism are very close to the artist. In today’s world, which is oversaturated with external stimuli, anti-consumerism, including on a creative level, is the only way to preserve oneself and not become a slave to sensory overload. Translating principles of medieval music, such as polyphony or the tintinnabuli principle, like duality expressed in the alternation of sound and silence, into a visual language is an interesting task for Vittoria Ainimo.
The author would like the viewer to remember the idea of meditation, look inward, and experience a sense of fullness of being by hearing the echoes of Gregorian chant.