The Triangle Gallery is pleased to present the collective exhibition "Morphology of the Spirit". It will include works by Nikolai Koshelev, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, the artistic duo Dmitry Okruzhnov / Maria Sharova, as well as Chinese artists Yi Fan and Jingge Dong. 

Multi-colored spots of colors gently combine into a rhythmic composition, after a couple of moments and steps, the silhouettes of objects begin to distinguish in it, then the nature of their relationship becomes apparent. This is how figurative and abstraction combine on the surface of a single canvas. The blurring of the lines between these trends and their transformation through each other is one of the notable trends in contemporary art today.

Many artists today turn to abstraction, which transforms the material world, but it is well known that in the history of 20th-century art, various trends in abstractionism have repeatedly become a means of dissolving reality. In the era of photography, cinema, and then digital art, pure abstraction became the artist's minimalistic language, allowing him, if possible, to fully convey reality using non-life-like methods, to return to the source of the creative process - the creation of an artistic image that is fundamentally different from the environment.
Now, largely due to the accumulated visual experience of the past, artists are once again exploring the relationship between abstraction and subjectivity in a similar way, creating images from the elements of the two
principles located on the border of worlds. However, each artist finds his own proportion of pictorial synthesis between object and sensation, deconstructing and recreating the world at the same time.

The paintings by Nikolai Koshelev (born in 1987 in Moscow, lives and works between Moscow and New York), first presented in the space of the Triangle Gallery, explore the boundaries of pure picturesqueness, which fills figures with shimmer, creating eternally moving images. Inspired by the aesthetics of the symbolism of the Silver Age and the New Realism (Nouveau Réalisme), the artist creates bizarre worlds that seem to have emerged from a twilight dream. In the indigo-colored shadows, one can guess the appeal to the monochrome-blue silhouettes of Yves Klein.; fabulous creatures, as if woven from iridescences of mother-of-pearl, remind of Vrubel's brush, nevertheless, they exist in their own, bizarre world.

Alexander Pogorzhelsky (born in 1980 in Moscow, lives and works in Moscow and Milan), who is also participating in the Triangle Gallery project for the first time, captures the visual impression of objects surrounding the artist in a new series of works. "It is very important for me to quickly capture and convey the immediacy of my contact with the object." Sketchy, transparent and light
The manner of work becomes the main creative principle that allows you to capture the image of things, their life as a metamorphosis. The associativity of the perception of compositions seems to reproduce the
principle of memory, which distinguishes the essence in the vague outlines. The ancient artifacts, archaeological and ethnographic monuments that the artist encounters become
layers of history and stories living on the surface of the canvas - in the space of timelessness, which combines the patterns of Russian spinning wheels, Sumerian reliefs and ancient Egyptian amulets. The images, fleetingly "caught" by the artist, exist in their own world, pass from painting to painting, as it were, "roam", change, unravel and live.

Jingge Dong (born in 1989 in Beijing, lives and works between China and Venice, Italy) also depicts a world that exists in a state of eternal transformation. The interspersed object elements gently reassemble on the surface of the canvas, forming the process of eternal transformation of the contours of matter into swirling energy. Time itself in the artist's works lives in an abstract flow - the natural state of being of painting.

Abstract art, which often explores the nature of metaphysical quantities, becomes an artist's way of reacting to times and spaces. This theme is revealed in the work of the duo Dmitry Okruzhnov (born in 1984, lives and works in New York, USA) and Maria Sharova (born in 1987, lives and works in New York, USA), who work in the direction of “geosocial” abstraction. The urban reality that surrounds a person on a daily basis breaks up into fragments, turning into a pixel mosaic. Thus, the artists set the basic coordinates of the universe - the space and time in which a person exists and to which he reacts with creation: "the state is more important than a specific place, and time is nonlinear and multilayered." The architectural structures of the pictorial collages appear, according to the duo, as "ruins" - this is how time dissolves space, and abstraction blurs the boundaries of the objective world.

The painting of Yi Fan (born in 1997 in China, lives and works in Venice, Italy) lives in a metaphorical sphere, which at first glance is completely detached from figurative and "earthly" systems. However, in the colorful curves imprinted on the surface of the canvas, the elements of hieroglyphs are read. Behind the tradition of Western abstractionism, oriental picturesqueness is revealed - moving lines fusing into each other form a cipher ornament hidden in the most concentrated and symbolic form - a sign. "The creative process begins with abstract philosophical concepts, painting becomes my method of continuous exploration and movement as an extension of knowledge." Objects and the words with which a person names them return to the state of primary matter - an elusive thought is created directly on the surface of the canvas. Without being fixed, it remains alive, existing beyond time intervals.

The appeal to abstraction within the framework of figurative images becomes a way of influencing the sometimes too definite and unchanging or, conversely, rapidly changing reality around a person. Exploring the facets of speculation and the disintegration of the material principle, the artists form their own "superreality".