Sublime Transcendence in the Work of Atara Grenadir
by John Austin, art writer
The component that drives great art, what Wassily Kandinsky referred to as the principle of "inner necessity" prevails in all of Atara Grenadir's work. The materiality of Grenadir's paintings is confronted with a sense of profound dematerialization. The longer one looks at the artist's work, the more the viewer's sense of order turns into realization of vastness and profound mystery blending seemlessly in order to create a symbolic whole. ...
Atara Grenadir's color field painting is intriguing as it is held in a state of suspension between two conditions: at a remove from transcendence while allowing the viewer to participate in which might be considered a perceptual aspect of transcendence through the use of boundless infinities of color expanses. This interwoven doubled presence and anti-presence in each painting itself furnishes the idea of an enduring present, the contrast between change and the unchanging, between time and eternity. The result is an immersion in the dynamics of color and structure whose primary claim to authenticity is the effortless, seemingly casual sense of inevitability that greets the viewer in each of Atara Grenadir sublime works.
Atara Grenadir's color field painting is intriguing as it is held in a state of suspension between two conditions: at a remove from transcendence while allowing the viewer to participate in which might be considered a perceptual aspect of transcendence through the use of boundless infinities of color expanses. This interwoven doubled presence and anti-presence in each painting itself furnishes the idea of an enduring present, the contrast between change and the unchanging, between time and eternity. The result is an immersion in the dynamics of color and structure whose primary claim to authenticity is the effortless, seemingly casual sense of inevitability that greets the viewer in each of Atara Grenadir sublime works.
