Opium
03.05.2022 - 15.04.2023The exhibition hall project “Opium” 15 full-sized monochrome graphic abstract compositions were organic for the opening the main author’s idea-to visualise different stages of fighting with the pain under the influence of opiates The gallery stuff is dressed in medical uniform, helding different medical attributes. Explication with text explains the sense of exhibition experiment. The main idea of which was to show, that the abstract art without subjective anchors, can vividly reflect the multi emotional behaviour of a human being.
Opium
«Gives the forgetting of sadness & removes grief» Homer
The topic is private & forbidden, but I am an artist, I am already 70 year old & I want to tell about it, about getting rid off pain, about changed conciosness, about my experience. I studied out the colleagues: the fairytale painting of victorian John Fitzgerald, of course, & literary creatures of the Parisian hashish club members- Baudelaire, Balzac & Hugo & poetry of english romantics Collridge & Shelly with their stunninglying comparisons.
And here, your submissive elderly servant, who suddenly got after-operation changed conciosness, who saw pain & the process of struggle with it by means of opiates. At first, it was amorphous bio mass of homogeneous gray color, being in the process of constant viscous move, absorbing & deeply retracting me inside, without the chance to escape & gradually very slowly the clearances appeared, so called «epileptic aura» by Thomas the Queens & they gave hope, the pain receded, dissolved in space & blissful existance started. And again & again the process repeated wavyly, more calm, gradually disappearing. It lasted for 10 days. Nothing for the history, but for the artist living by his images-the whole world, which I want to share.
Gulyako Simon
From the author:
On the eve of the New year, by the ambulance, was delivered to the 5-th surgical department of the Mariinsky city hospital, where stayed in operational,resuscitation & hospital ward until discharge. This experience was reflected & expressed in 15 full-format 60x100 paintings on paper by tempera color. Held in the oldest St.Petersburg gallery SPBART.COM Gallery.
Opium
«Gives the forgetting of sadness & removes grief» Homer
The topic is private & forbidden, but I am an artist, I am already 70 year old & I want to tell about it, about getting rid off pain, about changed conciosness, about my experience. I studied out the colleagues: the fairytale painting of victorian John Fitzgerald, of course, & literary creatures of the Parisian hashish club members- Baudelaire, Balzac & Hugo & poetry of english romantics Collridge & Shelly with their stunninglying comparisons.
And here, your submissive elderly servant, who suddenly got after-operation changed conciosness, who saw pain & the process of struggle with it by means of opiates. At first, it was amorphous bio mass of homogeneous gray color, being in the process of constant viscous move, absorbing & deeply retracting me inside, without the chance to escape & gradually very slowly the clearances appeared, so called «epileptic aura» by Thomas the Queens & they gave hope, the pain receded, dissolved in space & blissful existance started. And again & again the process repeated wavyly, more calm, gradually disappearing. It lasted for 10 days. Nothing for the history, but for the artist living by his images-the whole world, which I want to share.
Gulyako Simon
From the author:
On the eve of the New year, by the ambulance, was delivered to the 5-th surgical department of the Mariinsky city hospital, where stayed in operational,resuscitation & hospital ward until discharge. This experience was reflected & expressed in 15 full-format 60x100 paintings on paper by tempera color. Held in the oldest St.Petersburg gallery SPBART.COM Gallery.
