Pro memoria. Sergey Maksyutin. Paintings and graphics from the private collections
Date:
9.11.2023 18:00
Place:
Art and design gallery «A&A Interior»
Address:
RPCR Aqua Residence, Porto Montenegro
Free entry, RSVP office@aainterior.me
18:00 - Opening of the exhibition. Evening ceremony with cocktail and music.
Art & Design gallery A&A Interior kindly invites you to the opening of the exhibition:
"Pro memoria. Sergey Maksyutin. Paintings and graphics from the private collections"
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the artist and includes works from several of the author’s main cycles, on which the artist has worked over the past years.
The center of the exhibition was the “Olives” series, started by the artist in 2006, on his first visit and acquaintance with Montenegro.
Art critic Maria Gadas writes: "Maksyutin began painting Montenegro immediately after his first trip. Then his desire to turn objects into events resulted in a series of portraits of water: the artist's amazing ability to fill (in the case of water, almost literally), plotless space. Flowing into one another, these compositions, like... olive groves, overcome the conceptual idea of repeating a subject with painting. Maksyutin paints calm water and water that becomes cloudy during a storm, often bringing tree trunks to life, and in each canvas, he insists on pictorial content. Such monotonous "diaries" were once kept by impressionists, observing the subject in the changing light and their moods. But there was a lot of stubbornness in their work, a pioneering desire to find evidence. Maksyutin's painting ends within itself. The beauty of these short and so significant states of nature, in reality, lingers on his canvases, making any ideology meaningless… Olive comes from a species embodied in many life forms. But closely connected with divine and human history, it does not seem to belong to the world of plants, having forgotten photosynthesis, it approaches the animate..."
Another series of works is “Chaos Theory” (2018-2019). It is no coincidence that the author says about himself: “I am an artist of primary matter.” In these works, he boldly, thoroughly, and vividly expressed his philosophical ideas and his desire to comprehend and convey the essential states of Existence. The abyss is the basis of everything; it is around and inside a person, and it is the beginning of everything.
Addressed to the theme of cosmogony, these works depict a storm wave as a symbol of boundless abyss and disorder. Sergey Maksyutin said about this series: “Storm Wave is not an image of the sea. I want to understand for myself what chaos is. The book of Genesis says that the first thing that appeared was chaos, where there are many ideas, thoughts that have not yet been manifested. Some of them are manifested, some are not. The storm surge shows a force that is neither good nor evil.”
“To understand the meaning of water, its essence, is an exciting task for me,” said the author. “Variability, vibration, an infinity of rhythmic and irrational phenomena - what space and freedom... Water is a different reading of space, a different dimension of time... a different state. Surface - reacts to the light and color of the sky, surrounding forest, and clouds. The whole world is reflected but in a different vibrating space. The other layer is the bottom. There is sand, algae, fish, stones, sunken branches... Another world, another life...”
So the artist explored not only the water space, but also its inhabitants and created an extensive gallery of their portraits. The “Fishes” series (2020-2022), embodied on canvas and various graphic sheets, expressively tells the story of the passionate love of the artist-fisherman and artist-philosopher for close, detailed research and study of these semi-fantastic creatures. Emotional and bright, the images of fishes and crabs, caught with one’s own hands or discovered at the city market were created by the artist like a hymn to the absolute beauty of God’s ideal creation.
“I’ve been writing for a long, long time. Slow-witted. I want my works to reveal new layers of perception with each new look at them and not be unambiguous. So, I added new impressions layer by layer. The color and sensual nature should be expressed even in small areas of the canvas, which can often be seen as an abstraction full of emotion... I would like that. I don’t know if it works...”
This exhibition is organized as a sign of boundless love and gratitude to the artist and his family.
Date of the exhibition: 9.11.2023 – 9.12.2023
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