ТАНЦЫ С КАМНЕМ
Ivan Arkhipov
solo exhibition
"НА ПЕСЧАНОЙ"
Moscow
2022
Photo: Irina Kara
I have experimented with different techniques, mainly etching, dry point, linocut and woodcut. In 2019 I worked at a Chinese village located 50 kilometers from Beijing
- in the Shangyuan art residence, where I have been staying for 3 summer months. Residence lacked of necessary equipment for creative work in printmaking techniques, specifically the most important - etching press. I used as a press a large stone that I had been found nearby. With that stone
I was able to print a series of four prints, and also I have created about 10 more works
in woodcut, linocut techniques and paintings. When I returned to Moscow, in the wave
of pandemic 2020, this idea formed further. This experience in Shangyuan allowed me
to look at a lot of things from a new perspective and I continued to work. Today In the Moscow galllery "На Песчаной" I put together artworks created in Shangyuan.
