From my window
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Year | 2021 |
Material | Graphite and mixed media on canvas |
Size | 140 × 200 cm |
"The technique of his drawings is simple to the point of archaism: based on the talent of a draughtsman, it is multiplied by gigantic artisanal labor. The space of the drawing literally accumulates, visualizes and translates the energy of expended "man-hours", instantaneous impulses and shortest signals unthinkable for the current time. The artist frantically attacks the canvas, fights with the pencil, holding it according to Filonov's testament: like a carpenter with an axe, so that no one can pull it out.
Chelushkin's insistence on ignoring even slightly significant themes or iconic images is striking, in how carefully he grows his personal poetics of unrecognition, and how consistently he increases the yield of his marginal fields! It is impossible to find a media face, a recognizable landscape, or a homage gesture in its depository. Breaking out of any canons into occasional freedom is a task that is practically impossible to solve, but it is fascinating, as one of the great ones cannot remember: "The world caught me, but it did not catch me."
Text: Anton Ouspensky