"The project is dedicated to the work of famous abstract artists. Taking a well-known painting as a basis, I created my work, trying to

achieve maximum consonance with the work of the master. The idea of ​​the series is to show the possibilities of abstract photography."

 

-Pavel Proskuryakov

 

Masterly using a lens instead of a brush, light instead of paint, moving in the semblance of a shamanic dance or the dance of St. Vitus, Proskuryakov creates his photographs. He is inside the process, his movement, as well as the movement of the camera, in a single dynamic process create a new light abstraction similar to abstract expressionism.

 

The famous representative of Abstract Expressionism - Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock) American artist founded the so-called "action painting" (Action Painting), which is a method of spontaneously applying an image to the canvas. 

 

This was embodied in the movements of the author's body during the drawing process. Spilling, throwing, splashing paint, he energetically moved around the canvas, as if dancing, and did not stop until he intuitively fixed the final result. The artist's goal was to "directly transfer the creative process to the canvas." Critics have called Pollock "Jack the Dripper" by analogy with the famous "Jack the Ripper".

 

In the presented project, our author can be called "The Ripper of Reality" because

as a basis for creating his works, he takes profane artifacts of the reality around us, dissecting them through the process of photography and turning them into an aesthetic product.

 

He uses himself as an expressive dynamic tripod, and the camera matrix as a canvas on which he puts the necessary and sufficient amount of light and color. Outwardly, it looks like Pollock's quasi-ritual dances, but unlike the picturesque abstractionism, in Proskuryakov, we repeat, banal environmental objects become the basis for creating photographs.

 

The project is intended to demonstrate the process of creating photographs from a formal figurative basis through expressiveness, dynamism of action to a convincing aesthetic result directly related to the history of contemporary art of the twentieth century.

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-Slava Mizin, the Blue Noses Group