Street in the snow Painting

SAPA is a duo of two artists. In our works of art, it is important to work on color forms and search for solutions to this problem without automatism, without repetition. From the experience of this collaboration, the desire to create and the concept of the art duo SAPA was formed. Creating a color form is a skill. To push it out, to bring it to metaphysics, to space, to breath - these are our principles of work. The forms are not just a character and copy of the realistic world, but they also express the firmness of the spirit and the fire of our soul. The viewer of the painting, crossing the border of the canvas, penetrates into space and time, into the world created by us with the help of moving forms and perspective. The entrance to the picture begins with the foreground, then penetrates into the middle plan, the third plan and further, where we create space, “tearing” the canvas. Not looking for some kind of philosophical metaphysics from the outside, but rushing deep into our soul, looking back at the world, we begin to create in complete freedom, based on the simple law of the universe: a dense earth and infinite space. This is the formula for us. For example, when we draw a house, we apply this formula. The earth is dense, so the house is dense. We must not lie, we must paint the weight of the house. It is also necessary to feel the structure of the bricks, we must penetrate inside the house with the help of the shape, its tension. When we see a white building in the landscape, we do not rush to paint it with white paint, realizing that behind the plaster of the house there are heavy, red bricks. And the work and search for the creation of the shape of the building begins. We draw a lot of graphics, it is in it that we formulated our creative approach. Therefore, in painting, we often transfer graphic methods, putting the sharpness of the drawing in the relief paste of paint, texturally drawing from a tube of paint on the canvas over the painting layer. Therefore the line dominates, what the Fauvists and Expressionists had. The resulting works are extremely powerful, as if carved out of stone compositions. Verticals and horizontals are identified, and rectangular, close to geometric shapes are present: cubes of houses, street lines, and tree verticals. They give stability, structural integrity of the composition. In a series of works called “Animals” we are committed to the formula, and the generalized character.