ARTISTS

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.

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...

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.

"When I was ten, I played football. When he was twenty, he studied at the university to become an engineer. When he was thirty, he graduated from theological seminary. At forty he was a designer, sculptor and builder. I'm in my fifties today - and I don't even know who I am, "he said of himself. God sent this man to earth to try many more things: he worked as a rolling stock inspector on the railroad, as a furniture assembler in a factory, and as a village father. He struggled with alcohol...