Entropy LXII Painting

...The artist begins to find an interest in the life of these figures (or more properly, bodies) inside the space. Their free flight recalls, or perhaps is inspired by, contemporary ballet, or possibly video installations with figures frozen in poses from an imaginary dance, by famous English artist Sam Taylor-Wood. The discovery of the new dramatism in the existence of the figures and space is connected in her work with patterns of movements from avant-garde choreography. But the fundamentals of the video are the least interesting to our artist. Here movement is subjugated to the space of the canvas itself. The figures are done in sharp lines, and seem to be almost particles dissolving in it. In their various folded-up poses they are like textures of the canvas. They bend and warp together with it. Their flying bodies are seen as the movement of meteorites; they are merely simple clots of energy swallowed up by a space that too is bent and hobbled. From canvas to canvas they become more and more decoratively significant: gray, blue, bright burgundy, or green... Margarita Kostryts Senior employee department of the newest currents Russian Museum