The PiranesiLAB gallery is opening a print art room at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center with the exhibition "Light Under Water" by Vladimir Dubossarsky. The intimate space's first project will explore printing in the artist's practice, using two techniques—silkscreen and etching. Beyond Dubossarsky's well-known painterly method, his prints demonstrate a different approach: greater attention to individual strokes and gestures, and the tension between the random and the deliberate in their interaction with the material, matrix, and press.

The exhibition's central work will be a sheet from the "Light Under Water" series—an image of a chandelier, a recognizable design attribute of the Soviet past, submerged in water. Unlike the main edition, here the chandelier "hangs" in the space of a white sheet. A print originally intended for technical color verification is being shown at the exhibition for the first time and takes on the status of an independent work, revealing the poetics of chance: the natural drips of the artist's partially dried layer are juxtaposed with the classic ornamentation of silkscreen dots.

A series of etchings from the 1990s will contrast with the large-scale sheet. In these works, Dubossarsky is extremely focused on the organization of the sheet space and the use of linework. The graphic work reveals the artist's structural thinking, rarely highlighted when discussing him as a painter.

About the artist

Vladimir Dubossarsky (b. 1964, Moscow) is a Russian artist. He graduated from the Moscow Art School named after 1905 (1984), then the Surikov Art Institute (1991). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was an active participant in the artists' squat on Trekhprudny Lane. From 1994 to 2014, he worked in a professional duo with Alexander Vinogradov.

Dubossarsky's works are included in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), the State Russian Museum** (St. Petersburg), the New Museum (St. Petersburg), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Duke University Museum of Art (Durham, USA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston), and other public and private collections.