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"...Chelushkin has an absolute ear for gradations of chiaroscuro. You don't have to light a lamp to make the light shine. Light arises from darkness when a skillful hand begins to arrange its tones and gradually a dim and then brighter ray breaks through from this order, as in the engravings of Dore, who masterfully depicted the battles of light and darkness in his biblical cycle. 

Sensitivity to chiaroscuro gradations allowed Chelushkin to reach a new level of constitution of this phenomenon, but in physical reality. Having separated the screen and the light, he himself answers the question he posed in one of his installations: "what did I manage to understand about light and shadow?" 

Text: Konstantin Bokhorov