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Gorshkov Ivan

Year2022
MaterialOak, milling by robotic hand
Size85 × 75 × 80 cm (without the stand)
800 000 ₽
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The main motif of the exhibition is fleeting scenes of scanned still lifes or random Internet images taking shape in slabs of ash or oak rhizomes. All this creates a feeling of a paradoxical, impossible object. 


All the works at the exhibition are part of Gorshkov's typical strategy of recent years — the “generator of happy accidents“, when a work appears as a result of a certain chain of circumstances. Gorshkov's "Big attractor" is a great center of attraction (from the English attract — "attract, attract"), a black hole into which, according to the artist, "megatons of information fall through, coalescing there into unimaginable chimeras."

 

The bulk of the works created on the basis of the Vaults workshops are reliefs. They are divided into 3 types: slabs of sawn wood, glued slabs of ash and MDF. The MDF reliefs are brightly colored and have a collage component. The most ambitious and interesting part of the exhibition is round sculptures made of stumps—rhizomes with a milling robot hand. Collage elements are an important component: imitation of food, small plastic made of artificial stone, etc. Without these elements, all of the above-mentioned reliefs and sculptures appear more like prototypes. The application of an additional layer seems to breathe life into the reliefs, inhabiting them, turning them into a background, into a landscape, turning them into a given, into something self-evident and not needing explanation and justification, like nature itself.

 

Text: Katya Bochavar