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AUREA SAECULA
Vladimir Kartashov
September 4 — September 23, 2021
Triumph Gallery
Triumph Gallery
The artist invites the viewer on a pleasant stroll across an everblooming heavenly garden where loudspeakers are pumping out music all day and all night and where fountains are splashy, dolphins are playful, birds are chirpy, and the time has stopped.
The new project by Vladimir Kartashov, Aurea Saecula, is a logical continuation of his signature focus on the exploration of online culture and the aesthetic of game spaces. The artist invites the viewer on a pleasant stroll across an everblooming heavenly garden where loudspeakers are pumping out music all day and all night and where fountains are splashy, dolphins are playful, birds are chirpy, and the time has stopped. Welcome to the meticulously constructed computer-enabled Arcadia—the Golden Age of user-generated reality.
Reminiscent of fêtes galante, the compositions are set against the background of lavish greenery and skies in all variations of improbable blues. The central place is given to baroque fountains, which symbolize the source of life and pleasure, and the bright green, almost acid-vibrant grass is peppered with colorful tulips. Against a background vaguely suggesting theater sets, frozen in classical poses are the heroes of our time clad in puffer jackets and stylish sneakers. The artist constructs composite images of online users and employs clichéd symbols that form new culture codes, used and understood by the younger generation. As he puts together his painting compositions, Kartashov uses a broad range of techniques: ancient Russian ikon painting, Richteresque paint blurring, decorative popular print style, or lubok, glitch effects, sophisticated glazing for fine detail
Reminiscent of fêtes galante, the compositions are set against the background of lavish greenery and skies in all variations of improbable blues. The central place is given to baroque fountains, which symbolize the source of life and pleasure, and the bright green, almost acid-vibrant grass is peppered with colorful tulips. Against a background vaguely suggesting theater sets, frozen in classical poses are the heroes of our time clad in puffer jackets and stylish sneakers. The artist constructs composite images of online users and employs clichéd symbols that form new culture codes, used and understood by the younger generation. As he puts together his painting compositions, Kartashov uses a broad range of techniques: ancient Russian ikon painting, Richteresque paint blurring, decorative popular print style, or lubok, glitch effects, sophisticated glazing for fine detail
Enchantress Lane
2021
Diptych Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
2021
Diptych Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
Enchantress Lane
2021
Diptych Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
2021
Diptych Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
The new project by Vladimir Kartashov, Aurea Saecula, is a logical continuation of his signature focus on the exploration of online culture and the aesthetic of game spaces. The artist invites the viewer on a pleasant stroll across an everblooming heavenly garden where loudspeakers are pumping out music all day and all night and where fountains are splashy, dolphins are playful, birds are chirpy, and the time has stopped. Welcome to the meticulously constructed computer-enabled Arcadia—the Golden Age of user-generated reality.
Reminiscent of fêtes galante, the compositions are set against the background of lavish greenery and skies in all variations of improbable blues. The central place is given to baroque fountains, which symbolize the source of life and pleasure, and the bright green, almost acid-vibrant grass is peppered with colorful tulips. Against a background vaguely suggesting theater sets, frozen in classical poses are the heroes of our time clad in puffer jackets and stylish sneakers. The artist constructs composite images of online users and employs clichéd symbols that form new culture codes, used and understood by the younger generation. As he puts together his painting compositions, Kartashov uses a broad range of techniques: ancient Russian ikon painting, Richteresque paint blurring, decorative popular print style, or lubok, glitch effects, sophisticated glazing for fine detail
Reminiscent of fêtes galante, the compositions are set against the background of lavish greenery and skies in all variations of improbable blues. The central place is given to baroque fountains, which symbolize the source of life and pleasure, and the bright green, almost acid-vibrant grass is peppered with colorful tulips. Against a background vaguely suggesting theater sets, frozen in classical poses are the heroes of our time clad in puffer jackets and stylish sneakers. The artist constructs composite images of online users and employs clichéd symbols that form new culture codes, used and understood by the younger generation. As he puts together his painting compositions, Kartashov uses a broad range of techniques: ancient Russian ikon painting, Richteresque paint blurring, decorative popular print style, or lubok, glitch effects, sophisticated glazing for fine detail
The juxtaposition of traditional techniques from the past and the obnoxiously youthful modernity is in no way contradictory for Kartashov. Conversely, the worlds of the past and the present are, in his eyes, closely interconnected and intermingled, to a degree where they are inseparable.
Temporal boundaries in Kartashov’s work are erased. It is not entirely clear whether his canvases are vortices amalgamating different time periods or portals into a new virtual reality where the delineation of time periods is no longer useful. The new synthetic reality offers new space-time continua, and we are left with the choice: to play by the new rules or to press QUIT GAME.
Сurator: Polina Mogilina
Temporal boundaries in Kartashov’s work are erased. It is not entirely clear whether his canvases are vortices amalgamating different time periods or portals into a new virtual reality where the delineation of time periods is no longer useful. The new synthetic reality offers new space-time continua, and we are left with the choice: to play by the new rules or to press QUIT GAME.
Сurator: Polina Mogilina
The juxtaposition of traditional techniques from the past and the obnoxiously youthful modernity is in no way contradictory for Kartashov. Conversely, the worlds of the past and the present are, in his eyes, closely interconnected and intermingled, to a degree where they are inseparable.
Temporal boundaries in Kartashov’s work are erased. It is not entirely clear whether his canvases are vortices amalgamating different time periods or portals into a new virtual reality where the delineation of time periods is no longer useful. The new synthetic reality offers new space-time continua, and we are left with the choice: to play by the new rules or to press QUIT GAME.
Сurator: Polina Mogilina
Temporal boundaries in Kartashov’s work are erased. It is not entirely clear whether his canvases are vortices amalgamating different time periods or portals into a new virtual reality where the delineation of time periods is no longer useful. The new synthetic reality offers new space-time continua, and we are left with the choice: to play by the new rules or to press QUIT GAME.
Сurator: Polina Mogilina
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