Torso With Black Iron Oxide Painting

"Artists today often attempt to extend themselves beyond just being skilled in their studio work — trying to master new technologies, work with space in new ways, unite reality and video, work with light, and so on. The parameters of Arseniy Blinov’s search are somewhat different. Blinov is a professional designer interested not in the means, but in images that become the object of a specific creative investigation. Most often this concerns set «media» clichés with which he works. Blinov sees in them an initial, inherent duality. Here, in a dialogue that arises constantly, he has something to «say», both from the point of view of pure form and new substantive ideas..." Senior employee department of the newest currents Russian Museum Margarita Kostryts