Dmitri Krasnopevtsev

Art historian Rostislav Klimov notes the subtle yet powerful sense of balance and harmony inherent to Krasnopevtsev's still lifes, as well as the artist’s strict adherence to a particular working method and a limited range of depicted objects. Each painting acts as a self-contained, yet constantly evolving expression of the artist’s thinking process.

Krasnopevtsev commented on his work in 1988: ‘I am certain that contemporary art like none before it demands silence, due to an inevitable and desirable contrast. Majestic, stern, composed, it must awake in us feelings of tranquility, order, permanence, and solidity – everything we lack in this insane, soul-mutilating everyday reality' (quoted in A.Borovsky, ‘Art in the Delta of Alternative Culture’, in Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, Los Angeles: Curatorial Assistance, Inc. and New York: D.A.P, 1998, p.16).