"DEARCHIVING" series
 
Vintage black and white photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries became the basis for a series of large-format paintings. The photos themselves in this series can be divided into two groups. The first are photos taken in photo studios, so popular at that time in every European city. These are so-called office photos. The plot refers to parsun portraits. The genre of art, which has a history of several thousand years, still exists, changing depending on aesthetic preferences, social statuses, and the worldviews of customers. These photos come mostly from the artist's family archive, as well as from the collections of antiquities collectors. The second group is portraits of models. A series of postcards depicting the beauties of the Miss Europe contest, which took place in Paris in 1930. Each girl in these photos represented her country in Europe at the time. The plot refers to the genre of a psychological artistic portrait. Here the photographer tried to reveal individuality as much as possible to show through a portrait the very personality of each girl and used the means and technologies available to him at that time for this purpose.
The canvas carefully reproduces not only every detail of the image itself, but also the abrasions, discoloration, and crumpled surfaces of the photographs themselves. Thus, photography, being an illusory imprint of light on paper, gets picturesque materiality and texture. Photographs, which are a testimony to the past, the culture of that time, become material for a deeper study of the concepts of memory and decline. Finished paintings begin their journey, live their lives. The artist deliberately leaves them on the floor of his studio to collect accidental abrasions, scratches, stains, layers of paint. In this way he fuses the conscious process of copying and chance, the predictable irrational and traces of his biography, to show through the picture this relentless transformation in time. It brings thoughts about the time which is constantly grinding the human past, erasing something from our memory, discolouring memories and leaving in it some hints, fragments, surviving remains.

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"MONO" series

The "MONO" series is something on the border of graphics, plastics and printed textures. Shimmering silver or gold veil, through the breakthroughs of which you can see the movement of coloured mass. The effect is achieved by combining metallic paint with silky-matte acrylic. There is a visual tactility and at the same time, there is a desire to look behind a thin metal web and see what's behind it, in the depths, on a white surface of the paper.

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"SHADOWS" series

... a meditative contemplation of the passages of time that grinds our past, intertwines people's destinies, erases something from the memory. It's like the intricacies of decor on antique, well-worn carpets or someone's look through scratches on old photos…