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Any Painting is a Drawing of Yourself

Posted in: ARTISTS, Kristina Smelova

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In Kristina Smelova’s painting, the impressionist methods are clearly visible. Working mostly with the palette knife, the artist doesn’t care about carefully painting out individual objects, but conveys the unsteady, momentary state of space as a whole. Applying wide pasty strokes, she seems like covers her own feelings and experiences with color relief. At the same time, Smelova’s painting is not constrained by the theme of public relations or politics.

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Song of Protest by Peter Yemts

Posted in: ARTISTS, Petr Yemets

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In the late 1980’s, journalists called Petr Yemets a stalker of the Chernobyl zone, a guide who leads people to an anomalous territory. And it is really true. We follow him on the roads of Chernobyl, overgrown with radiation weeds and bombarded with poisonous apples. Together with the artist, we go through the ways of despair, screaming, and tears.

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Blue Blush by Sasha Bob

Posted in: ARTISTS, Sasha Bob

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The first thing that catches your eye is the apparent simplicity, deliberate negligence and that extraordinary freedom which the artist uses to paint his images. At first glance, there is a feeling that I would also be able to do this. But trying to understand why this or that work attracted you so much, you begin to understand the whole incomprehensibility of this simplicity. Probably the whole thing is in the colour scheme. Often it seems crazy, but for some reason, very close and...

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In Search of Lost Dreams

Posted in: ARTISTS, Gari Goryany

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In the paintings of Goryany, we observe an alchemical process, as a result of which cosmic energy, concentrated in black iron as the first phase of metallic matter, turns into the sensual world of primitive man. At the same time the colored alloys take on the fine-material energy, symbolizing the human transition from the wild to the civilized, pre-history to history, from pre-life to life.

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