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ART IS MY LIFE AND MY LIFE IS ART !
A journey through my diverse art, shows many elements that we already feel and see, perhaps hidden deep in our soul, or already uncovered.

Art works are born at first in the mind and soul, after that they are ready to be 'frozen' on canvas! Painting process begins in the mind or already existing in the soul. And I work when I walk, i feel, i see, i hear, i eat, i sleep...

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. It is its own world which needs to come out, and I just have to choose the right time to revive it and make it visible.

DESIGN IS HER VOCATION

Alla GrAnde breaks the mould of a contemporary artist, uniting the dimensions of design as a passionate dancer on all the stages of creative endeavour.

She lives and breathes design passionately throughout the breadth of her activities as an artist, architect, interior designer, creator and sculptor.

The orchestra of her talents is reflected in the many different collections that she has masterminded. Alla GrAnde works for a multitude of highly regarded companies in Europe. She designs not only interior spaces, fac?ades and canvases, but also public art, product design, furniture, jewelry, etc. And again her enthralling minimalist lines are imbued with the shadow of maximalist charisma. Alla GrAnde is an artistic umbrella brand that subsumes a wealth of talent. Her works are the shadows cast by a passion that burns with intense brightness.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman

Great ideas always begin with a dream; it is the dreamers who move our world, and they do so by pouring their passion, energy and talent into their visions to bring them alive and to give them flight.

Alla GrAnde, the multitalented artist behind the exclusive exhibition in the Burj Al Arab, is a passionate dreamer and energetic force. She is an architect, designer, creator, sculptor and, above all, a creative artist who is not only treading an untrodden path but forging new dimensions in the postmodern art.

Her powerful plays of light and shadow and the exhilaration of vivid colours create more than a memorably stylised picture of a face.

Rather, under Alla GrAnde's far-seeing, intense regard, a person's portrait is remodelled as an artefact that documents their personality to iconic effect.

Resident in Germany, Alla GrAnde has been fascinated by strong personalities ever since her childhood. She studies the life stories of great people, immerses herself in their world and in so doing finds the inspiration to compose an outstanding work in her own right.

Oversized pictures of people as pictorial collages and assemblages of the professional, social and private facets of her muses and models constitute an overall work of art, of incomparable depth.

What makes “ALLA-ART” truly unique, however, is the forging of new dimensions using light and shadow. Light and shadow are her artistic lifeblood. Light creates life and gives all things their being and their own dimension.

The artist does not sign her pictures with her name alone. She personalises many of her works with a kiss that symbolises her passion and her intimate relation to what she creates.

A number of Alla GrAnde's oeuvres, for instance her magnificent golden homage to the Burj Al Arab, also depict the artist herself as a reflection or shadow in the background.

Alla GrAnde, most certainly a name to watch; indeed, not only is her first name, “Alla”, a slavic girl's name, it is also a musical term meaning “in the style of”.

Coupled with the weight of her surname, “GrAnde”, her name alone points to style of no insignificant substance.

Alla GrAnde's art can be found in private collections in Germany, France, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Australia and, now, in Dubai, in the Burj Al Arab, a hotel with a wealth of unique attributes that defies categorisation. Just like Alla GrAnde's stunningworks.

A bold approach

Alla GrAnde’s artistic endeavour centres on the classic genre of portraiture with its long history and rich tradition. Against all appearances, however, her creations resist straightforward categorisation. Deliberately simplistic in the post-modern art style, her abstract, memorable countenances permit the identification of her real-life subjects.

That said, the complexity and ambivalence with which the artist summarily depicts her models’ professional, social, historical and private facets are just waiting to be explored by the onlooker. Indeed, Alla GrAnde is not about a recognisable style as such; rather, individualistic and intelligent reflections.

The artist’s insight into the subjects of her large-format paintings is defined by a search for the typifying characteristics of acclaimed personalities of the current age who appeal to her.

The countenances she creates are more than stylised faces. The eye is drawn first of all to falling shadows and the colour components they generate, which in turn act as filters to the sensitively portrayed attitudes and mindsets. Subtle insights into the depths of the soul accentuate spatial forces set free by means of advancing light and receding dark areas.

GrAnde uses extreme intensity of colour coupled with large formats to endow her models with an almost iconic presence. Added to this, the subjects are placed far into the foreground, indeed to the limits of acceptance, with the faces extending slightly beyond the outer edges of the picture.

Alla GrAnde’s works are characterised by a focus on the essence, but they do not lack an inescapable depth. Powerfully and yet sensitively comprehensible, undertaking an idiosyncratic and original exploration of her abilities, the artist pursues her own style of sensual portraiture. It is a style that exudes an ingenious exuberance – beyond the sometimes groundless course of evolutionary trends and the fatuitous classifications we now see in art. Often, beneath the ubiquitous smoothly perfect surfaces, there lies unsuspected depth.

The transition from planimetry to 3D is thus not difficult.

In this light, progressing all the way to absolute three-dimensionality appears almost inevitable.

GrAnde creates many other items, curiosities and design-centred utensils large and small with loving devotion. Coupled with her remarkable talent for drawing, her collections of sketches and designs are compelling evidence of her never-ending flood of ideas.

„In contrast to today’s blurry non-commitment, Alla GrAnde’s sharply styled details are unshowy and thorough. Proximity to the world of fashion and film is somewhat a matter of intuition in her bold and instructive yet focussed works.

These days, much goes missing amid the ubiquitous razzle-dazzle.

Her artworks, however, represent the many faces of the world, and are inspirational invitations to seek out internal realms and temporal currents behind the fleeting but powerfully defined glimpses of moments in time.“

Art critic and editor Dr. Hans-Peter Schwanke (kunstmarkt.com)