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ART Habens
Maksim Kuznetcov
statement for the audience if it were
expressed in a language that speaks to the
subconscious via simple forms. Artists like
Vadim Sidur, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon
were very successful at finding such language
and discussing very powerful and non-
primitive questions through their artworks.
Aesthetics in art by itself is not very
interesting to me, unless it’s used as a means
by artists to express an idea versus mere
elicited pleasure. There is so much more
fulfilling beauty in the intellectual or spiritual
dilemmas expressed in art than in, for
instance, a perfect drapery technique of
Dutch painters of the 17th century. Maybe
visual art will never be able to explain the
laws of the universe but it can, without a
doubt, answer ethical and life-long existential
problems, contributing to the development of
our society.
All the subjects that I produce are very
personal; my incessant thoughts and conflicts
I see around me in real life. Often, they are
triggered by discussions with my friends or
readings of philosophy as well as fiction and
non-fiction literature. So, the images that
form, coming from my subconscious, are
rather loaded with cultural or philosophical
concepts or symbols. These images are
usually a representation of my understanding
to a solution of a spiritual, emotional or
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