Жажда (2017) Painting by Konstantin Kansky (Kanskyart)

Kansky's work is proof that the world continues to live with a dream. He creates the image of the country in which you want to live. We see how the rooks glide over the always calm sea waters, how carnival characters emerge from them, who begin to fish or play flutes, violins or outlandish guitars.

His characters are sometimes funny, but always kind, even Sinister, and not at all scary.
The artist creates images of the earth, devoid of asceticism and, at the same time, chaste and poetic. The feminine and masculine is understood by him not in erotic-sensual forms, but as a manifestation of chivalrous lofty ideals. This is a world without an anthropomorphic center, in it the existence of a person is in tune with the life of flowers, trees, streams of water - all this is in the process of eternal flowering, maturation, change. Associatively, he constructs archetypes of mythological consciousness, yearning for the Golden Age. Man is not the center of the Universe, but he is the World, one of many.


Kansky perceives the tradition as a touch to the primordial essence, the prototype born of myth, the supreme being - the Absolute, about which the last word cannot be said, one can only approach by intuition and contemplation. In this case, creativity is a prayer that is possible only in silence, in the rejection of everything domestic, social, psychological, which reduces the great to the level of the everyday and the ordinary.
Three hypostases: rhythm, line and color are involved in the liturgy of the first forms on which the linear-plastic action is based. The more "open" the color, the higher the degree of its emotional impact and the clearer the symbolic row is read. The artist uses a wide range of coloristic searches: from soft warm browns to decoratively bright, hot or cold. On the glazing tradition of the old masters, he imposes the experience of painting by modernists of the 20th century, who are not afraid of local colors.
Standing on the threshold of the XXI century, Kansky managed to summarize the experience of distant eras, combining them with the innovations of the XX century.

Art critic T.N. Sokolinskaya

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1968
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Russian Contemporary Artists