ORELART PARIS Art Contemporain Russe et International

PRODUCT DERIVED FROM THE HIGH CULTURE

In the scrubland of creative researches, as the artistic life is longer than that of the common run of people, it is sometimes imperative that the artist remembers from where and from what all started.
Cardboard packing, found in the street, answered in the most adequate way my requirements of support to paint large panels or frescos.
From the point of view of my set of themes, I am since long years already fascinated with respect by masterpieces of the past. I had a hard time to express it for a crowd of reasons: shortage of material of quality, absence of stable place of work (no workshop) and absence of place of storage, and finally the main thing: absence of silent partner who would have the utility of it. This situation caused the use of the paperboard, support easy to find and easy to lose.
While working with these packings from the street, I discovered another material there: Scotch tape of packing, which proved to be a marvellous medium of expression, very discreet and disciplined, low in colours and which is appropriate very well to accommodate the outlines because its characteristics make it possible to emphasize very quickly the impressions. Its speed of adherence, the freshness of its brilliance, the poverty and the purity of its colours make it very alive and very contemporary.
The subjects, selected to be represented, are easily recognizable patterns: in this case, they are taken in the town of Paris. If a conflict seemed to have to emerge between selected material and the identification symbols of the local culture, let us hope that it does not cause the irritation of the spectator. One should not see any irony or provocation here; on the contrary, the concrete and recognizable character of the subject constitutes the first step towards the artwork, which is the essential source and base for the construction of a pictorial monument.

Valery KOSHLYAKOV
Paris, 21st February 2003