The work is mainly performed in warm tonal colours, its title once again sends us back to the author's fantasy space. Iridescent shades of the landscape correspond to the stylistic features of pop art. However, what the picture depicts does not allow us to consider this work within one definite direction. Here the viewer is again confronted with the synthesis of the characteristics of different art movements typical for the artist. We see an image of a bathroom and its shadow. The shadow, in its turn, reproduces the outlines of the woman's figure, even though the artist does not place the woman herself. Such an image refers the spectator to surrealistic motives, where reality and night dreams, recollections and fantasy are mixed. The landscape itself creates the feeling of a daydream, something extremely idealistic and inaccessible. The yacht at the sea and the bath on the shore are the only objects in the scenery space. Compositionally, they are located on the axis of one diagonal, which forms a certain interaction between them. In the picture, the artist is trying to artistically visualize the intangible and unreal — a dream of one woman. That is why we see only her shadow, which suggests that we have a very personal, unique, but imaginary world.
The «Green Sky» work was created by the artist to draw people's attention to the surrounding world. This is another alternative reality of the author, where everything has swapped places. The sky is green, the foliage of the trees is blue, and the zebra stripes have turned into a pop art pattern, completely confusing the viewer. The artist creates a landscape in which all colours have been mixed. The main goal of the colour dissonance is to reveal the perfection of the world and nature around us, which, in contrast with the picture, represents an absolute harmony in its color scheme.
The work displays a space landscape. This is another fantasy world of the artist, which, however, contains a certain message. There is a house on the relief surface with its windows twinkling in different vivid colours. There is a parking sign next to it, which, despite its routine character, looks especially strange in the context of the lunar relief. The author reflects on the prospects of rapidly developing technological progress, which sooner or later will lead a person to completely different spaces, planets and worlds. However, the author ironically asks a conceptual question: will such incredible discoveries allow a person to get rid of ordinary habits and laws of the old world, such as toll parking?
The «Rendezvous» work opens up a new perspective on ordinary things. The viewpoint of the spectator reveals a man who has not yet presented flowers to a stranger woman on the first date, happens to be under her thumb already... Another author's interpretation? Intuitive promises of a beautiful lady or just a specific angle? The author chose to leave it a mystery...
This work is based on contrasts of shapes and colours, in order to strengthen the viewer's perception and emphasize the conceptual component. This black and white painting, which is opposed by a bright star in the yellow abstract rays of the spotlights, depicts a crowd of people. The artist portrays a star as an abstract shape to emphasize and reinforce the definition. The star shines in front of a homogeneous mass of black and white crowd. The artist is talking about the pursuit of an ambiguous ideal, which in reality only removes a person from his individuality.
The work is remarkable for its specific composition. The spectator's line of sight is under the sole of the shoe. This perspective literally allows us to look under the skirt of the depicted female figure, there is an element of some forced voyeurism in it. This artwork is the author's discourse about birth in a broad sense of the word, about the creation of everything around. The woman is holding the sun, its rays diverge in all directions. We do not see the whole figure, however, such a plot solution enlarges the size of the figure, endowing it with divine functions. This sensation is enhanced by the sight of a moving space opening out from under the uneven edges of the skirt hem.
The artist's imagination comes up with a new ironic idea in the work called «Now I'm living here...». The main character is the cuckoo, not the real one though, but the one from the old Cuckoo-clock. Bewildered sparrows timidly watch the impudent imaginary character created by the author...
The picture is executed in monochromatic pastel rich colours with some elements of Russian nature.
The picture is executed in monochromatic pastel rich colours with some elements of Russian nature.
The work called «Believe me» depicts a newlywed couple at the moment of pronouncing their marriage vows. The large cage structures that chain the bride and the groom elegant figures in the pelvis area become the contrasting element in the overall idealistic atmosphere of the painting.
In the work, the artist discourses at the generally accepted view of marriage and the prospects of its evolution. Fidelity is one of the main traditional tenets of a marriage. Violation of the fidelity vow is often the main reason for a breakup. The artist plays up the situation, constructing a fantastic scene where future spouses, framed by lattice cages, exchange keys, thereby entrusting themselves to each other.
In the work, the artist discourses at the generally accepted view of marriage and the prospects of its evolution. Fidelity is one of the main traditional tenets of a marriage. Violation of the fidelity vow is often the main reason for a breakup. The artist plays up the situation, constructing a fantastic scene where future spouses, framed by lattice cages, exchange keys, thereby entrusting themselves to each other.
Black as oil, popular as oil, essential as oil, expensive as oil... What kind of liquid is that? No, it's not just a liquid, it's a man-made space drink... The author ironically compares one of the most popular drinks in the world with one of the most mined minerals, depicting them on the same plane...
«An interesting angle» is another artist work, in which ordinary things acquire a new sense thanks to the author's specific composition. The pop-art colours give the picture a life-affirming mood. The title itself reflects the main idea of the artist. The viewer's perspective is placed in an unusual position, which gives the painting a feeling of unreality and makes the plot more interesting and exciting.
The painting called «A dryer» reproduces another fantastic location from the artist's alternative reality, where images and memories form situations that are inaccessible to everyday perception. The work stylistically and ideologically recalls another painting of the artist called «My dream». Some illusory and surrealistic elements, which are completely indistinctive for the pop art style, appear in the scenery. The painting is inspired by the author's memories of the provincial town sights where he's spent his youth during the years of perestroika in the Soviet Union. There was the clothes drying area in the artist's courtyard. This recollection formed the basis of the painting. We may see the distorted reality, the memory, that makes everything more vivid, snatching out the most important elements of a person's consciousness and exaggerating them. The sky takes on a bright crimson hue, the dryer exaggerates to a huge size and lamp posts become its supports, abstract windmills appear on the horizon, and a ghostly figure is moving along the road, its presence marks the unreality of the depicted.
This work represents a landscape composition. Two snowmen set near a textured fire flame are the main characters. These anthropomorphic figures acquire human features under the influence of fire, recognizable parts of the human body appear from under the snow. The author's conceptual idea becomes the semantic dominant of the work. In this painting, the artist uses fire and its properties as a metaphor, he sees fire as a source of awakening of a human being and his consciousness. In the author's artistic interpretation, melting snowmen are an allegory of consciousness awaking under the influence of fire. It is interesting to mention that fire is a very ancient symbol, we may remember Prometheus, who steals it from Olympus and carries it out to people. A fundamentally new page in the history of human civilization begins with the «divine» fire and taking possession of it.
The «Size Matters» landscape consists of many local colour planes combination that form a single bright composition. However, this natural relief will seem familiar to any viewer. As in many other works, in this painting the author ironically plays on a phenomenon known to all of us. The artist depicts the Great Wall of China as a tailor's meter, its strip smoothly extends along the mountain ranges. The author creates an alternative reality in which objects are deprived of their primary physical shell but remain their meaning and properties. The soft tailor's meter hints at the main quality of the well-known architectural construction. Through a kind but ironic association, the artist invites the viewer to take a fresh look at this monumental building.
The plot is based on the environmental pollution problem. The artist associates the title of the painting («A Peace pipe») not with an attribute of North American Indians, but with a factory industrial pipe that releases toxic gases into the atmosphere. The enchanting image of a smoking man profile depicted in the painting of green foliage and concrete buildings reminds the viewer of a massive threat to the Earth, and a pink elephant in a gas mask is one of the confrontations of these multimillion-dollar pipes all over the world.
The «Watcher» painting, as well as the «Anything can be» work, represents a space landscape. The compositional solution created by the author draws our special attention. A human figure hovers in the open space, above the Earth's sphere, only the legs remain visible. The artist discourses in a new way about the figure of the Creator, the Judge and the Guardian. He does not dramatize it or exaggerate it. We see the ordinary legs and quite simple clothes, but this configuration of the depicted creates a feeling of some mystery.
The «Changing roles» conceptual work was created under the influence of one of the most significant events of the last decade, with the consequences and manifestations of which we are all still learning to live. We are talking about the pandemic that has brought considerable changes to the daily life of every person, and has formed new habits and rituals. The pandemic has also launched a process of total reflection and has become a key element to understanding modern existence. There are two figures: a man and a dog, looking at each other, against the background of an abstract geometric wall, part of which is covered with black and white checkers, reminiscent of diamond rustic Renaissance Italian facades, and the other wall is tiled with pale yellow tiles. In the work, through a comparison of the dog's muzzle and medical masks, the author discourses on the inevitable innovation, which, at first glance, does not represent anything terrible, but still limits a person just like a muzzle fetters a dog.
