“Autumn Vernissage 2024”

The exhibition "Autumn Vernissage - 2024" has opened at the NGHM | Art of the 20th Century

I present my new work "Brothers" on it, oil on canvas 90x160cm 2023

The confrontation between brothers is an ancient biblical story. Born as a symbol of the unity of all humanity, Cain and Abel in reality began to personify the most fierce and irreconcilable enmity, a split in society. Brothers grow up in the same family, raised and educated in the same cultural tradition, using the same examples. They are similar in appearance, so much so that they are always confused. But here they are standing in front of each other, preparing for a fight. Both are strong and desperately brave, both are confident in themselves and are not ready to compromise. Both go to the end and never give up. In this equality of strength and conviction to stand to the death is the insane drama and hopelessness of this fight. They know each other down to the smallest detail, down to the slightest eye movement, down to the twitch of a vein. It's like shadowboxing, the enemy reads your thoughts, repeats your movements, anticipates your blows, and circles in the mirror dance of death. They stand, brother against brother, knowing that the battle will be terrible. They will put all their hatred and all their love, all their intelligence and all their passion, all their courage and all their despair into it. They will break, reveal, smear these familiar features, familiar for as long as you can remember. They will tear everything that connected them, scatter the memories, the eyes of the mother, the hands of the father. Cheekbones will crumble and walls will break, entire cities will be erased. They are facing each other. They look into these painfully dear, but now so alien eyes and see themselves reflected in them...