From figurative to abstraction 1991-93
The appearance of my first works is associated with the exhibition of sculptures by Henry Moore that took place in Moscow in 1991. I was inspired by the way Moore extracted the effect of inner strength and human depth from simple forms. I began to explore images with human content: love, voluptuousness, the need for protection, reassurance, care, contradictions, internal protest. The similarity of sculptures with organic forms evokes countless associations with natural events and processes - birth, growth, fruiting, maturation, dying. Read full text >
Associations may not apply form, but to the energy hidden in it. In the first works (torsos and figures), energy is created by the forces of relaxation, peace, and movement. Later forms with holes appeared where opposing forces were involved: attraction-repulsion, gravity-floating. I was looking for something that could inspire non-figurative form. These searches found a way out in representing the form as the interaction of external and internal forces and the way to express this through multi-part forms. The idea is directly transferred from the form to the method of connection with another form (Ulysses, Opus, Refuge). This way of making sculpture allows the form to free itself from figurativeness.
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Torso 1991
Reclining figure 1991
Dream 1992
Endless Motion 1992
Self-sufficient 1992
Asylum (Moby Dick) 1993
Opus 1993
Ulysses 1993