Timothy Karaffa-Korbut "Residents of the Forest" Automatic translate

The project "Forest Residents" was created over several years in Moscow and on about. Bali (Indonesia). The project includes large-scale canvases, oil (2x3m.), Depicting various representatives of the flora and fauna of the planet, sometimes in high magnification, while the used technique is ARTLESS, taking its roots both in stone paintings on the one hand and on children’s drawings. a felt-tip pen, on the other hand, which in turn leads to an emphasis on the “inconsistency” of the format to the familiar context of social living conditions, while turning the “children’s” discourse into a sacred search for primary archetypes and self-identification and the first people of the Stone Age at the dawn of human civilization. And the second part of the project is the author’s video shot mainly in the remote villages of. Bali, which shows the life of the Balinese among the jungle, almost without civilization, in harmony with nature, while everyone has television and the Internet… the videos are shown on small screens (possibly laptops) in order to preserve the feeling of “field” shooting on the one hand, on the other hand, to show that feeling from the scale of nature and the place of a person harmonious in it that arises in a “spectator-tourist” when looking at that virgin world. The "inhabitants of the forest" on the Forest itself. The project is designed to draw attention to the most serious problems that have arisen in the ecology of the Spirit of a modern civilized person who has fallen into a crisis of concepts and meanings provoked by the culture and philosophy of postmodernism and shows ways out of this crisis through modern art, as engaged in self-identification and establishment - the return of archetypal meanings.

The exhibition runs from February 9 to February 19, 2017.
Opening will take place on February 9 at 19.00 Admission is free.
The gallery is open daily, except Mondays from 11.00 to 21.00