Dmitry Kawarga became the winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the field of contemporary art in the nomination 'The best Work of Visual Art' for the project 'Inner Landscape Membranes' that took place at the Anna Nova Gallery in the summer of 2022.
The project was about the fusion of cultural and natural matters. It’s the synthesis that the artist uses to decode our civilization’s origins, enciphered in the environment, whether in bends and curves of fallen trees’ roots or in the calmness of Russian wetlands The exhibition featured paintings from the new cycle — Inner Landscape Membranes. The artist presented the conventional concept of landscape paintings in it, cutting through the canvases and inhabiting them with recognizable Kawargian matters, inner landscape inserts. The works featured a genre combination — they are no longer paintings and yet they are not sculptures yet. They are more like materialized fragments of the artist’s mental processes, impressions and shatters of his take on the world. The centerpiece of the exhibition was the 7-meters-high Deep Matter installation that refers to the Earth’s interior and represents all the vanity of human ambitions, which tend to assume the cyclical form of creation and destruction.
We are happy that the project prepared by the artist together with the gallery was highly appreciated by the expert jury of the award and was recognized as the best for the past year. Congratulations to Dmitry!
