Return to the roots Painting

Alla Ronikier deliberately anchors in European art through emotional closeness to the post-impressionist methods of seeing and portraying. She runs an independent art gallery and also functions in the exhibition circulation of European art. By presenting her works at numerous exhibitions in international galleries, she additionally shapes aesthetic and artistic awareness based on the principles of creative dialogue. Hence, among other things, her personality and thus her painting is rooted in multiculturalism. Not without significance is her long immersion in the Polish-Ukrainian tradition of difficult history and cultural commonality. These conscious experiences are pronounced in her paintings, although heavily abstracted. Its forms often assume a dramatic character further dynamized by the reflection created in the material-mental process of painting. One should add that the author situates her ancestral roots in the regions of Volhynia and Podlasie, which in the Polish viewer reinforces the reflective character of these paintings. For Alla Ronikier, memory is a vital element of her life and creative inspiration, as evidenced, among other things, by a series of painterly drawn temples met or found during her artistic and historical peregrinations. Abstracting from representational and even figurative narrative is a form of her conscious choice of a creation method, giving a true depiction of what is unrepresentable, and it is unrepresentable because of its perpetual understatement, uncertainty, doubt, and, finally, genetic ambiguity. That is due to the ideological messages of a personal search. In painterly and semantic form, it finds manifestation in a peculiar dualism, a struggle between expressiveness and decorativeness, specified by tones, and the color filling the forms. Among the vital elements that constitute Alli Ronikier's paintings is light. Through it, the author moves from radical representations, dynamized by contrast, mainly landscapes, to highly multi-tonal, emerging vaguely from unknown space, largely undefined but meaningful forms. The color scheme of Alla Ronikier's painting is determined by the nature of the inspiration and the messages of individual works and even the entire series. Alla Ronikier's painting is the result of an emotional creative attitude. It is also the result of the incessant need to paint inherent in her spiritual and physical temperament, which lies at the heart of not being indifferent.