the Quarantine was canceled, and the necessity of isolation remained. Especially for artists, because they at all times need solitude. And no matter what is happening outside the window – pandemic or parade. Today the project “Art of Being” in the Studio of Eugene by dyibsky., who many years ago moved from Moscow to Milan, from there to “farm” in two kilometers from the town of Caravaggio, the birthplace of the genius of the Renaissance, then to Cologne and 11 years ago in Berlin.
Eugene by dyibsky. is that rare artist who found his own style in his student years and very early, from the late 1980s, began to successfully exhibit abroad more often than at home. He graduated from the first Moscow art school of 1905, and then the graphic faculty of the Institute. Surikova. Then was dominated by the realism, specifically, socialist realism, and students sharpen writing formal, figurative things. But by dyibsky. I felt this pull to another artistic language of the metaphysical. More free and imaginative thinking. His early experiences made him famous in underground circles. He soon went to Italy and Germany, where he now lives and works. But from time to time comes over to Russia, where, of course, also in 2003 was his exhibition in the Tretyakov gallery, in 2005 and 2013 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Although most of the artist’s work can be found on the West – on exhibitions in London, Milan, Athens, Pittsburgh, Amsterdam… In his abstract works face different materials and textures. They felt “pure power in the coastal zone,” wrote the poet Alexey Parshikov in the poem “Earthquake in the Bay of TSE”, dedicated to the artist. So Jack often uses drill to collect their paintings together. In his Berlin workshop is such “instrumental” music sounds day and night.
– What is your personal creativity zone? What a space, its mood, the drink? Does it matter the size, wall color, window view, the absence (or presence of) extended attributes (maybe books)?
– I live and work in this space for seven years. It so happened that when I moved in ended in a single “project” (the word for art is a little wacky, but I use it), and after moving in 3 months new born associated with chiaroscuro, which had never before didn’t interest me as a topic of study pictorial space.
he was Born in Venice, but began to develop here and, as I understand it now, the space itself is strongly the workshop in its turn is affected by: I have two working room l-shape are connected through the arch, nine in the big West to the end of the working day starts at sunset, warming hanging in the process at the end of two working walls in every room work. To this�� time I’ve been warmed by the working process, twist arms and shoulders, sides and back Powerball, go through the light and shadow itself, contemplate the work and all the trash in a changing world which throws frames for photos during the workout.
the view from the window also falls into meditation, thoughtlessness and lens.
In the next two living rooms hang my different things, I can through them onto the terrace and sometimes they draw from life quite Italian court. Water, coffee and tea accompanies the working time.
Books to read at night in bed, now “Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (the Man without qualities” is an incomplete novel by the Austrian writer Robert Musil – M. M.)
is it Important for you loneliness while working in the Studio?Can you work, if there is someone else?
the Loneliness is very important. I am quite adaptable to the circumstances of character and can work in the presence of other people, I still draw from nature during the “holiday season”, people don’t scare me. But in the Studio, I it is not so much “focus” on work, how much to be distracted from it – but not important: for example, looking aimlessly at a computer, a social network, then look up on the wall and accidentally see the new potential development hanging there. A long time, often for years on a single picture, but at the same time in the process is always a lot, now about twenty, each with an unknown course and outcome.
How long can you stay in the Studio alone? A few days, weeks, months and not go in white light?
– Can not go a few days, especially now. When there was no quarantine, two or three evenings a week were hanging out on the opening day, and on weekends to museums and stuff. Now it was canceled, miss, because it’s very important to see the other, apart from myself.
– How important is it for you food, when inspiration strikes? Do you have your recipes to fuel creative activity.
– I Like to eat and cook well, now a lot of have experimented with this. Kitchen floorentrance meat or fish, salad, grapes with cheese or without. A couple of glasses of wine with dinner and the news culture on TV through another arch.
– it is said that many artists work in “altered state”? Is it for you? What helps you sink into it?
Altered States is necessary to achieve every day. When I start working I have an idea, but the main idea is to get rid of it, to reach the stage of forgetting and following the process that occurred in the work itself. This is the interesting point, it is important to see and understand. When the case went this way and you’re already captured, starts alchemy and complex technical procedures, some of which I allowed to drift, and other energysirou consciousness and intuition. I work with traditional materials on an equal basis with others: dust, homemade emulsions, using the design of the subframe as a story, sometimes written portrait lying on the same canvas of a colorful smear.
Change materials and evasion is clear and skillful is my strategy. The constant change and distraction from one job to another allows you to get away from the routine.
During operation, not always, but often listen to music, serious symphonic or classical avant-garde. When you see that the work is at a critical stage and I need to show the class, becoming the Third piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff – always helps.
Now I can not go to training in the gym, so come up here with the Powerball, and various other items. And yet invented on the days synchronized with the charging and stretching massage along with shower. Very inserts. Ride evenings and weekends on the bike, the car did not go for three months.
People in order to live in the apartment for a few months needs to buy food. And what should be in your workshop for two months in addition to the products? Specifically – what materials?
Products, buy now try to make it clearer and less. Material I have always with stock and there is no need to think about litres. Rare for anything to go specially, casting, usually buy something on the way. But the absence of something is often pushed to replace it with another that leads to new sequences.
– what, in your opinion, mass self-isolation will change our world? Will affect the consciousness of the artist and the viewer? How to affect the culture?
– I Think the changes will be stronger, perhaps stuhnet energy rush, of mass psychosis and mass thinking that the art of the last 30 years is growing at a dangerous pace. I hope for a quick victory of progressive mankind above the dictates of the virus to be able to freely travel the world without barriers, when and where you want.
