Fields

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Shtager&Shch is pleased to announce Fields, a solo presentation of new paintings and works on paper by Russian artist Vitaly Pushnitsky. The exhibition will be accompanied by a book of the same name.

With his compositions of horizontal lines and colour fields that oscillate between barren landscapes and vibrant dreamscapes, Pushnitsky invites us to turn our gaze inwards to explore what lies beyond the horizon. By reducing each scene to a minimum of marks and hues with horizontal lines the main point of reference, the artist hints at a visual continuity of time and space, past and present.

As art historian Maria Borshchevska writes in her exhibition text "in this seemingly apolitical series, Pushnitsky’s intense introspection betrays an emphatic desire to locate one’s identity and morality in response to the immanent present".

Fields reflects the artist's renewed interest in the relationship between introspective gaze and physical perception and concludes a body of work that commenced in 2018 with Forest and continued with Garden in 2022.