–       In the desert, especially in the spiritual desert, the voice of one who is outside the chorus is not heard. It vanishes in bustle and everyday troubles. The ruling (and militant) trends in art of our days, renouncing the basic professional school and striving for success by all means, did not leave me any other chance but one – to remain “in the shadow”, to go on working as before. The triumphal procession in the Naked King retinue is not for me. In any social community, now and then, the Lenin’s slogan “Art belongs to the people” is a sentence of death to creative work. This sword of Damocles is overhanging above the artist’s head, being at the same time tempting and promising. My modest and intimate paintings aim at the principles similar to those inherent in music: harmony, composition, melody. And, of course, without such guiding references as “the present”, style, fashion… read more>

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