Moscow: duality, complexity, mobility in the highest degree, the confrontation and confusion of various surface elements which, on final investigation, constitute a quite unprecedentedly and distinctively unified image. The same qualities are also found in the inner life of the city, confounding the foreign observer (hence the many varied and contradictory reports of Moscow by foreigners) but this life, too, on final investigation, is just as distinctive and unified. I see this inner and outer Moscow as the starting point of my search. My painter’s “tuning fork”.
My preoccupation with the "hidden" and "concealed" values helped me to escape the bad side of native and rustic art, with which I first came in contact in its natural surroundings during my trip to the Government of Wologda. See more