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At dawn

2025
Materials: oil on canvas
5 см x 222 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 154502
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About the Work
About the Artist

The traditions of classical ancient sculpture, rooted in the Russian pochvennik culture, with its vast expanses and scattered villages, reflect the transformation of the classical ancient tradition, upon which all known European culture grew. In our reality, classical ancient art has long since dissolved and been transformed into something new, emphasizing the unprecedented scope of our culture. Russian culture absorbed classical ancient art, which became the foundation of Western European cultural thought, first absorbing and then nurturing within its soil the shoots of a new style that emerged, as they say, from the earth, "straight from the plow," emphasizing the somewhat ironic expression: "Russia is the birthplace of elephants." Everything belongs to us, including classical ancient art, which has long been part of our cultural code.

The "Russian Fog" project explores the theme of traditions and their influence on cultural codes. Various cultural phenomena, finding new ground, are transformed and strengthened in the new cultural space, sometimes absorbing local traditions, and sometimes transforming them, ultimately giving birth to new cultural meanings. This process can be observed in all areas of art, where so-called "borrowings" are synthesized with traditional experience of sculptural expression, forming a new artistic language.