Solo show at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow

Apr 3 – Nov 10, 2015
EVGENY CHUBAROV
The art lying on the surface can be wrong – the superficial art must be misleading.
— Evgeny Chubarov
Working in his unique style, along with the iconic representatives of the Soviet art – Ilya Kabakov, Andrey Monastyrsky and Erik Bulatov, Chubarov embodied in his paintings an idea of a new era philosophy. Visually capturing an energy and power of the world around him, he infused the abstract line with the power and meaning – something that had been previously displaced by conceptual art.

Chubarov considered himself a heir of the Russian "archaic" culture, drawing a parallel between his technique and the ideas of Malevich's "Black Square".
In my plasticity I'm intuitively searching for the equilibrium between black and white, inherent to Black Square. Those ratios of the surface curvature and the absolute white, visual occlusions and sudden breakthroughs of white through the thrill of white and black matter.
— Evgeny Chubarov
Working in his unique style, along with the iconic representatives of the Soviet art – Ilya Kabakov, Andrey Monastyrsky and Erik Bulatov, Chubarov embodied in his paintings an idea of a new era philosophy. Visually capturing an energy and power of the world around him, he infused the abstract line with the power and meaning – something that had been previously displaced by conceptual art.

Chubarov considered himself a heir of the Russian "archaic" culture, drawing a parallel between his technique and the ideas of Malevich's "Black Square".
In my plasticity I'm intuitively searching for the equilibrium between black and white, inherent to Black Square. Those ratios of the surface curvature and the absolute white, visual occlusions and sudden breakthroughs of white through the thrill of white and black matter.
— Evgeny Chubarov
His abstract compositions are the objectification of the borderline states with a constant conflict of core elements. The duality and contrast enhancement from one side and the harmony and return to the clear abstraction from the other.

This duality is also a theme of death and birth in his figurative work, where the image of human body comes to interpenetration with the objects of external space. Opening this new perspective to a viewer – Chubarov is showing the anatomy of the world and the human body as the whole and constant complementarity.
His abstract compositions are the objectification of the borderline states with a constant conflict of core elements. The duality and contrast enhancement from one side and the harmony and return to the clear abstraction from the other.

This duality is also a theme of death and birth in his figurative work, where the image of human body comes to interpenetration with the objects of external space. Opening this new perspective to a viewer – Chubarov is showing the anatomy of the world and the human body as the whole and constant complementarity.