“It is only when the painter is in possession of the vision and the details of the outer world that he begins to paint. The execution, instantaneous and rhythmic, thus become a projection of the shapes of external reality as well as of the inner world of the artist. .. It is the stroke that unifies the mind of man and the universe. While revealing the irresistible instincts of man, the stroke remains faithful to external reality.”
Francois Cheng, “Empty and Full”
In-Gate Gallery is pleased to present Age of Wisdom, a solo exhibition by Vladimir Semenskiy ( b.1968 in Imantau, Kazakhstan), on view from 18 February untill 8 April, 2023.
For his first exhibition with the gallery the artist has created an installation which refer to one of Vladimir Semenskiy’s favorite themes – human’s nature as a kaleidoscope of feelings, emotions and states, human’s life as a time flow, the sequence of brief moments witch never repeat. The exposition includes paintings with oil on canvas and a collection of sketches.
The philosofical aspect doesn not change the artist’s creative mood and his perseption of life, which is full of emotions, childish spontaneity and easiness. Maybe it explains why the universe of childhood is one of the favorite themes of Semenskiy’s works – the artist’s spirit exists in the same emotional space and shares a lot of personal features with the his young models.
Artistic creation is an exciting game for Vladimir Semenskiy, his way to express admiration for life and to invite the viewer to share the beauty and the poetry of everyday moments imprinted in his artworks.
Coulors and shapes, which exist in the permanent movement and development, a game of brush traces, strokes, and spots, filled up with the smile of the artist and the sense of excitement for the simple events of life.
Artistic creation is an exciting game for Vladimir Semenskiy, his way to express admiration for life and to invite the viewer to share the beauty and the poetry of everyday moments imprinted in his artworks.
Coulors and shapes, which exist in the permanent movement and development, a game of brush traces, strokes, and spots, filled up with the smile of the artist and the sense of excitement for the simple events of life.
Vladimir Semenskiy's painting balances on the edge of a large-format sketch and expressive painting, his images have a recognizable form, but at the same time are filled with movement, vital and mobile color matter.
Images arise and exist on the verge of figurative and abstract, at the dot of conversion vibrations and impulse of energy into the material and visible form.
The children painted by Vladimir Semenskiy, or the kindergarten, which he observes from without, the garden of continuous natural flourishing and development, are, of course, not merely concrete personages or a poetical metaphor. Be it a portrait or figure, it is a vacant shape, nearly an icon-painting formula, which is filled with actual moving and living materiality of painting. Shapes are filled not with a ready-made text, but with the material of which the text is assembled, the language per se and the raw matter of art. A human appears in that language, in painting, not as an abstraction or generalization, but as an instant of the unpredictable and disorderly chaos of manifestation, of something indistinct, that forms part of individual personal experience, of what we call humanness.
