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Quanta Dada Vancouver is an international online solo painting exhibition by Ivan Suvanjieff, opening on January 24, 2025, and running through March 24, 2025. This captivating exhibition invites viewers to a journey through abstract expression and defiant creativity.
Ivan Suvanjieff’s Quanta Dada Vancouver is not just an exhibition—it is an act of defiance, a declaration of creative insurgency against the monolithic structures of conformity. Steeped in the radical spirit of the Dadaists, Suvanjieff’s works pulsate with an unpredictable energy, a visual language that fractures reality and reassembles it into something both unsettling and exhilarating. His canvases reject logic and convention, embracing chaos, spontaneity, and raw emotion.
Suvanjieff’s art is deeply personal, shaped by his lived experience as an epileptic in a world that has historically sought to silence those who exist outside the norm. Through his paintings, he dismantles outdated prejudices and forges a new visual syntax—one that is ungovernable, fluid, and electrically charged. His artistic approach mirrors the unpredictable rhythms of quantum mechanics, where movement, light, and form collide in a dance that transcends the rational. Every stroke, every color choice, and every curve in his compositions feels like a defiant act, an assertion of existence beyond imposed limitations.
With Quanta Dada, Suvanjieff draws a direct line from the original Dada movement—born from the ashes of war and societal collapse—to the present moment, a time eerily reflective of that same chaos. His paintings echo the spirit of those early rebels who wielded absurdity, contradiction, and destruction as tools of resistance against oppression and corporate homogenization. Yet, this is not a nostalgia project; it is an evolution. His work embodies a new Dadaism—one that acknowledges our digital realities, our fractured cultural landscapes, and our quantum existence in a world constantly shifting between the tangible and the abstract.
Through bold compositions, kinetic movement, and a fearless embrace of disorder, Quanta Dada Vancouver reminds us that art is not merely to be seen—it is to be experienced, disrupted, and felt. Suvanjieff’s work demands engagement, asking us to step beyond the ordinary and into a realm where the absurd makes perfect sense, where voices refuse to be silenced, and where the act of creation itself is the ultimate rebellion.
Visit the exhibition and walk into Ivan's world here: https://www.exhibizone.com/quanta-dada-vancouver-exhibition
Artist:
I am a multifaceted artist, and I have a career full of success. I also suffer from epilepsy, with seizures almost every day. I am keenly aware of the fact that if I had been born even 50 years earlier, my voice would have been silenced. Those who saw my epilepsy would have perhaps delivered me to "The Asylum for Epileptics and Epileptic Insane” in Ohio, which was located very close to my hometown. As a U.S. citizen, those like me with epilepsy were forbidden to marry, and sterilization was regularly performed on epileptics until 1956. I was born in 1957.
The negative stigma associated with the word "epilepsy" continues to be very strong. And for this reason, I always tell everyone I meet that I am an epileptic. It is a part of who I am. It allows me to see the world in a different way. I refuse to have my creativity cancelled.
And I am fiercely committed to defending the voices of those who see the world differently. Whatever my mode of expression, I constantly stand for free expression in a world dominated by a single thought and the established norm. This is the reason why I created my solo exhibition, "Quanta Dada, the New Dadaism". I was drawn to the Dada movement of 1910-1920, a period of intense pictorial and intellectual creativity, which sprang forth 100 years ago in a time which profoundly parallels our own. Dada was created in reaction to an era of of global pandemic, crushing autocracy, concentration of wealth, mega-corporate power, and a world on the brink of destruction. The parallels to our current lives in the 2020s are both striking and profound. It is time for a new Dadaism which challenges all established norms, Quanta Dada, in this new era where the human voice once again deserves to be defended.
"When I saw Ivan Suvanjieff's work that streams like a quantum computer, I knew that I would never escape from Dada as long as a painter like this can create Quanta Dada!"
Andrei Codrescu, journalist, art critic and author of "The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess" (Princeton University Press, 2009).
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