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Attempt at Filling
Vladimir Kopeykin
December 24, 2024 — January 19, 2025
Gallery “Triumph”
Gallery “Triumph”
At the core of the project is a reflection on the phenomenon of emptiness and the ways it can be filled. The exhibition brings together works made of glass and lead—a heavy yet remarkably malleable metal.
Triumph Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Vladimir Kopeykin titled "An Attempt to Fill." At the core of the project lies a reflection on the phenomenon of emptiness and the ways it can be filled. The exhibition brings together works made of glass and lead—a heavy yet remarkably malleable metal.
At the peak of a personal creative crisis, the artist encountered a profound sense of emptiness that was difficult to articulate in words. In the work "An Attempt to Fill," which later gave the project its title, he sought to define this notion through the search for a visual form. Through a process of methodical labor, he seemed to arrive at a simple formula: emptiness is the cessation of action. The repetition and lived experience of a gesture or moment gives way to "nothingness," which in turn raises another question—whether emptiness is absolute nothingness or a space capable of being filled with anything.
At the peak of a personal creative crisis, the artist encountered a profound sense of emptiness that was difficult to articulate in words. In the work "An Attempt to Fill," which later gave the project its title, he sought to define this notion through the search for a visual form. Through a process of methodical labor, he seemed to arrive at a simple formula: emptiness is the cessation of action. The repetition and lived experience of a gesture or moment gives way to "nothingness," which in turn raises another question—whether emptiness is absolute nothingness or a space capable of being filled with anything.
Triumph Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Vladimir Kopeykin titled "An Attempt to Fill." At the core of the project lies a reflection on the phenomenon of emptiness and the ways it can be filled. The exhibition brings together works made of glass and lead—a heavy yet remarkably malleable metal.
At the peak of a personal creative crisis, the artist encountered a profound sense of emptiness that was difficult to articulate in words. In the work "An Attempt to Fill," which later gave the project its title, he sought to define this notion through the search for a visual form. Through a process of methodical labor, he seemed to arrive at a simple formula: emptiness is the cessation of action. The repetition and lived experience of a gesture or moment gives way to "nothingness," which in turn raises another question—whether emptiness is absolute nothingness or a space capable of being filled with anything.
At the peak of a personal creative crisis, the artist encountered a profound sense of emptiness that was difficult to articulate in words. In the work "An Attempt to Fill," which later gave the project its title, he sought to define this notion through the search for a visual form. Through a process of methodical labor, he seemed to arrive at a simple formula: emptiness is the cessation of action. The repetition and lived experience of a gesture or moment gives way to "nothingness," which in turn raises another question—whether emptiness is absolute nothingness or a space capable of being filled with anything.
Vladimir Kopeykin graduated from the departments of artistic metal and artistic glass at the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, and in his practice primarily works with these materials in the form of installations, sculptures, and objects. The ambivalence inherent in these materials—so opposite in nature—has always attracted the artist. Glass, one of the most fragile materials to handle, demonstrates remarkable durability and resilience: easily destroyed by humans, yet resistant to the passage of time. Metal, on the other hand, as one of the strongest and hardest materials, reveals its vulnerability to time, gradually but inevitably deteriorating.
Curator: Polina Mogilina
Curator: Polina Mogilina
Vladimir Kopeykin graduated from the departments of artistic metal and artistic glass at the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, and in his practice primarily works with these materials in the form of installations, sculptures, and objects. The ambivalence inherent in these materials—so opposite in nature—has always attracted the artist. Glass, one of the most fragile materials to handle, demonstrates remarkable durability and resilience: easily destroyed by humans, yet resistant to the passage of time. Metal, on the other hand, as one of the strongest and hardest materials, reveals its vulnerability to time, gradually but inevitably deteriorating.
Curator: Polina Mogilina
Curator: Polina Mogilina
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