Overpainted giclée print on canvas, Knights Dream, 2023. By Kartashov Andrey, Russia, 21st century. 1 of 15 tinted prints.
The painting «The Knight’s Dreams», with a somewhat defiant frankness in the updated tradition of Aubdrey Beardsley, enables the viewer to reflect on the many subtle facets of gender relations (embodied and non-embodied). The romance of the troubadours and the porn industry are depicted as two poles of the monad of love that does not make sense, but it is the one which assigns meaning to everything else. The spectrum from disembodied adoration to carnal pleasures seems to be representing the last chords of the anthem of the reality of incarnations, of the fusion of «objects number one». After all, the denial of objective reality is based only on sexual deprivation. It is the moment of the all-conquering nakedness of «yin» in front of the eternally armored «yang». A magical flower of beauty, causing insanity, promises a man, who is a victim of love, bliss and a new, better life. And this is almost true, but not for him, true for a new life that will come to replace the victim in the cycle of samsara for a new sacrifice. Adam’s wound from the removal of the rib will never heal ....
Andrey Kartashov graduated from the A. Erdely Professional College of Arts of the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts in Uzhgorod, and later graduated from the Department of Painting of the Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Portrait Painters Association of America (PSA), and in 2016, he joined the Union of Artists of Russia. His works are represented in the collections of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Tianjin Museum, and Liu Haisu Museum of Art in China, Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum in Austria, as well as in private collections of collectors from Russia, the UK, the USA, China, Ukraine, Poland, France, and the Netherlands. Produced using more forward-going technologies like the Metis scanner, which allows for printing out excellent quality art pieces, combined with the artists hand touch through overpainting, it becomes a high-class, exclusive art piece. Excellent art piece in an elegant black wood frame
8334 EUR
