Igor Ilyinsky is a regular artist of the gallery. This time he presents his paintings in a new space for him — the Art Basement. The change of exhibition venue has become symbolic for the artist. According to Igor Ilyinsky, the past year has changed him profoundly. The intense emotional atmosphere connected with the political situation and this turning point in history forced the artist to truly feel life and begin taking it seriously.
Over the past year, the force of attraction has become important. Not in the sense of the physical term or the phenomenon of attraction to the earth, but in the sense that priorities and points of attraction have finally become clear. To whom and to what are we really drawn, as if by an emotional gravity? The events on the Maidan, the rallies and fires, the war — all this became a line of demarcation. And now the force of conscious gravity works in two directions — we are rapidly being pulled apart to opposite sides of the barricades.
In 11 paintings, Igor Ilyinsky presents his personal experience of the events in the country, his country of attraction.