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I want a short hairstyle, oil on canvas, 160x120cm, 2008 | | |
The Wind rose of Dmitri Shorin, by Irina Filatova, curator of Fine Art Gallery, Moscow.
The paintings of the exhibition are part of the series «The Wind». By definition, a “Wind Rose” is a vector diagram describing the wind regime at a given location based on long-term observations. It is used, for example, when planning an appropriate orientation for a building. The wind rose of Dmitri Shorin includes breezes, «South Wind», the wind of change ( in the picture «I want a short hairstyle»), the wind of wandering, the philosophical wind, and, as mentioned by Shorin himself, some kind of an impossible natural phenomena - the north-south and east-west winds. A metaphysical wind is also present in the essence of each artist's canvas and has an opportunity to convey his own relationship to reality. This «wind» presents a sensual world, entertaining and strongly tainted with irony, a world with his natural sexuality, passion for life, pleasure, and consumption.
The big genre paintings of Dmitri Shorin, with their simple everyday scenes, don’t mask the changes in his feelings that are imperceptibly included in his works. The wind has always been associated with ideas of movement, change, a strong wind - with the destruction, the passion, the heat of feelings or anxiety. The tension we can feel in these works can be interpreted as a desire for deep, philosophical knowledge of life. In our contemporary world, we live simultaneously two realities – a real and a virtual life. That’s the appropriate orientation between them that probably is looking for Dmitri Shorin in his paintings, with his own “Wind rose”. |
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