Painter Oleg Agafonov

"Falling Skies #3 — Through clouds to the stars" Oleg Agafonov 2019 Size: 160 W x 60 H x 0.3 cm Drawing: Charcoal, Pencil, Acrylic on Paper. What I see is a dark, almost an alien-like mix of deep blue sky and a yellow cloud above my head: cold rays of light penetrate the thick mass of the cloud changing on its way into various shades of pink, blue, strontium colours... As if it were a dream. I wish I could reach out the fading cloud. How to draw something so elaborately detailed?

About Oleg Agafonov:

The artist was born in Suvorov, Russia. His works are based on the history of power, disappointments, wins (victories) and broken dreams, big promises, and performances, beautiful and wise people. His art is based on the concept of how to be a child of big and great history. The artist was born in the Soviet Union but he grew on its remains, he wandered in withered villages that were surrounded with great space of blossom forests and herbs.

"Falling Skies — Gesetz der Stauung (The Law of Damming up)" Oleg Agafonov 2019 Size: 59 W x 79 H x 0.3 cm Drawing: Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil on Paper. Bunches of ancient silver light tear the graded wash. There are so many details: grains, points, strokes, primitive geometric shapes like circles and triangles. They fight, that twinkle, they rush around the sky. This simplicity recreates the complete, the mass. I guess the way I created this work can be compared with the scientific desire to disassemble everything into tiniest bits and try to understand the universe from different angles… as if you were also a tiny part of it. Matter consists of zillion particles and atoms, processes, while we – humans – create a super-high-speed accelerator that collides high-energy particles... While in time, these particles are reunited in a canvas of clean celestial colours.

He is the child who has got the Soviet's materialistic education and maintained a romantics entropy of "Silver age" feelings. His art about exploring worlds that come across Mysticism with materialism. With interest in abstract expressionism, he is mixing ideas of esoteric and cultural practices to rethink and present another side of reality. His works have been exhibited in Russia, Italy, Poland, USA.

"Ritus" Oleg Agafonov, 2016 The Ritualistic scene with synthetic-nature phantoms. Figurative theatrical show with synthetic ghosts and their demiurge. Size: 51 W x 35 H x 0.3 cm Drawing: Graphite, Pastel, Pencil, Charcoal on Paper.

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