Untitled. From a series of collages on plywood

Gorshkov is a prominent representative of the so-called «Voronezh Wave» in contemporary Russian art. The artists of this movement are known for their traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture rendered in a bold, «hooligan» manner. Freely combining materials, textures and visual languages, Gorshkov creates intrinsically dynamic, mutative images. The unpredictability and seeming randomness of their transformations constitute the recurrent theme of his art built around the concepts of metamorphosis and fairy tale. One thing turns into another and the other way around. Metal sculptures usual for Gorshkov transform into inflatables; LED boards are disguised as painted pictures; internet-memes crop up on abstract paintings; landscapes covered with artificial hair and inhabited by plastic animals pretend to be sculptures; garlands, movable furniture and a tank with gurgling water form a total installation.

Text: Alexey Maslyaev