Evgeny Krylov. Inkwell fantasies

Erarta Museum presents an exhibition of the experimental artist Yevgeny Krylov - a journey to the mysterious "there" ...

Evgeny Krylov is a tireless experimental artist who works with various materials and techniques. He describes his work in one word - meaningful "there ...". This adverb points to a mysterious place, like the beautiful land of flowering lemon groves from Goethe's song. However, the dungeon of the subconscious, teeming with ghostly images, may also be hidden behind it. Be that as it may, this is a double world. It is present not only in professional activities, but also in the life of the author. The artist, who lives between Hamburg and St. Petersburg, deals with issues of the urban environment, working with sculpture and objects, then with his own painting projects, or purely cabinet experiments with old postcards, ink and watercolors.

The figurative world of Evgeny Krylov is incredibly diverse. It literally grows out of the life of materials: some sheets are born from a stain of paint or a coffee blot, which, like a magic log, suddenly spoke to the author. The spot as the subconscious basis of everything is of particular interest to the author. This naive, semi-automatic method, combined with a refined drawing technique and a sense of composition, has proven to be incredibly rewarding. And now the bizarre fabulous plants left the plane of the leaf to be embodied first in wax, and then in bronze.

People-moths, alrauns, leprechauns, revived roots, sylphs and gnomes - the products of folk fantasy, displaced by modern urban culture on the pages of books - in the work of Yevgeny Krylov again declare themselves. Behind some comic characters lies the author's thrilling view of the inexhaustible variety of natural colors and shapes - a look at simple things through his own magical prism. Creating his Pinocchio, Bumblebee and Flower Sellers, the artist intuitively masters the tools that once lay at the origins of the creation of the world.