2006
in London was a splash of paintings under heavy influence
of Samuel Beckett and Northern Seas with a short stay in Barcelona,
Paris and The Island.
FROM
2006 ARTIST'S STATEMENT :
I like landscapes with no trees, animals and people, or where
from time to time people are just passing by without performing
any drama, any gestures and speeches
I
like to read Samuel Beckett, Gilles Deleuze and Physics of
Blown Sand and Desert Dunes Geomorphology
I
like cinema with no much action
Cities
are ok as long as they are big enough to accommodate enough
chaos in it, so dense that everything merges into one chaotic
matter
I
know so many stories. Tonnes of stories so densely interrelated
and intermixed I can’t tell anymore only to paint layer
by layer. Mixed media is relevant here
New
paintings were painted in my London studio while I was thinking
of islands in the Northern Sea and Hong Kong, connecting all
this and other places by drawing the “plane of consistency”,
“smooth space” from the beginning of my journey,
from Kyrgyz Steppes - where I came from to all other places
where I went, where I am and where I am going to
I
don’t think I’m depicting any particular or imaginary
landscape, or illustrating any book – my paintings are
books and landscapes by themselves written of paint with a
constant curiosity about the materials they are made
Things I can’t connect in my mind are floating in painted
matter. I can’t see any reason to paint visible and
certain things, but enjoying to see them, painting voids,
smudging boundaries of recognizable shapes, painting uncertainty
I
used to call my paintings “railway paintings”
– paintings in-between destinations, tool of deterritorisation
where memories mixed with an expectation of the unseen yet
and stories, legends, myths, hallucinations.
I paint by layers – transparent and solid, textured
where mixture of complexities added to each other are creating
continuous surface often monochrome with traces of all previous
layers
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