Under Pressure. Ink Drawing

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Under Pressure. Drawing

a drawing valued for its painterly qualities

contradiction of materiality

Hand-made paints were created out of rust and concrete. It has been done with an idea about architectural connotations in mind. Architecture here is an example of a successful endurance of constant pressure. It has in itself such balance and strength which let it stand even under humongous amounts of weight and layers it contains. This connection to architecture is reflected in both sculptural and 2d work.

Drawings created with harsh materials are executed on gentle and relatively fragile materials - paper, tracing paper, transparent plastic. They depict sculptures built with very heavy construction materials, but show them in completely different light - delicate, translucent, airy.

Drawings of destructions, moment of weakness look very beautiful and mesmerizing.

Everything here is built on contradiction and contrast.

Drawings as well as sculptures are based on multi-layering, which in its turn is one of the moving forces of appearing pressure. Paper and tracing paper literally have to endure it under all the layers of liquid paints. The paper changes its shape, texture, deforms, can completely loose its initial qualities and appearance. And all that depends on the amount of applied pressure. It is impossible to calculate beforehand as well as predict the drawing you’ll get in the end. The way paint will behave, where the drips will go, how it will work with previous layers. Such behaviour supports the idea of unpredictability connected to pressure and developed before in 3d work.

6 views on one sculpture one on top of another

dissolved ink, 300 g/cm satin watercolour paper

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