"Небографика" Максим Ксута \ "Skygraphics" Maxim Ksuta

To fail to find a way in a city is an ordinary thing. Another matter is to lose your way there, like you do in a forest. This requires practice. Walter Benjamin "Childhood in Berlin at the Turn of the Century" Losing your way in your own city is next to impossible: you need to possess Benjamin's skills of a flaneur to stray from your habitual routes. Hanging around without any certain purpose is a task hardly feasible for the modern city dweller. A lonely walk is, rather, an attribute of literature, a true companion of romantics and melancholics, not of people always in a hurry on some extremely important business. At the very moment when an imaginary city map with a fantastic topography starts to form in Benjamin's mind, Maxim Ksuta shifts his gaze upwards, and his routes lie in a different plane where the sky of the city is lined with electric wires turning it into a graphic surface. Fussy reality seems to draw back, the space is cleaned to a near sterility — before us there are "sheets" which resemble either works by the American minimalists — from Agnes Martin to Fred Sandbeck, or the static compositions of the Russian constructivists. The comparison with minimalism in this case is far from being casual: Ksuta's works come in a series. The same theme can be endlessly and naturally varied — the artist consciously uses his means sparingly, intensifying at the same time the effect of recognizing more than just specific electric cables in abstract lines and spirals. The ...

 

Tags: Skygraphics, Maxim Ksuta, Triumph gallery, Art, Cotemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, animation

 



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