Head As A Structure

Gallery Pop/off/art presents now exhibition " Head As A Structure" of painter the classic of post-conceptual geometric abstractionism - Alexander Pankin.

Wounded in the head 1991

Alexander Pankin is an architect, painter, mathematician, he interested in controversial nature of humans head, his consideration chains to the persons at the peak of emotional or intellectual state.

The painter searched  his own art-language by investigation of masterpieces of russian avant-garde.

The artist took the head as main structure, as some starting point  to provide his own emotion to the picture. He created really innovative works for 70th years of 20 century.

"Mayakovsky"1973 TG

"Smoker" 1973

 His work "Artist"2014 shows that the painter still interested in the subject, whose potential is far from depletion.

Head of an artist 2014

It's interesting that the artist used antique casts for his works of art-"Antinous in the modern world"

cut it in a half and paint it investigating its meaning and structure. 

Another work "Icarus" based on antique cast too, it flipped  down. The artist had seeked the way to show iconic antique image at new angle.

Icarus 1989

Apoxyomenos 1991

Aphrodite 1991

The exhibition presents quite small number of work of the painter, but give impression that the painter devote to the subject. Surprisingly that despite of expressive wide strokes of the paintings and bright colors of them an artist has calculated mathematically the shape and color and proportions of all his paintings at beginning.

Apollinaire 1973

Head 1989-1999

Alexander Pankin has been discussing  a lot in his interviews about his mathematical attitude to his work, he even checked in the masterpieces of arts mathematically and has achieved an interesting result.

Politician 1991

Solzhenitsyn 1974

Head of a man 1992

Walt Whitman 1973

The exhibition is quite interesting, particularly in its contrast between the brightness and dry mathematical calculations.

Dina Gordienko IAD Level 4