Philosophical Stone. Transmutations , 2021

Philosophical Stone. Transmutations. 

Stones - "silent witnesses of passing away" in the painterly deliberations, mysterious in their form, matter, substance and essence, through a broad cultural context and rich symbolism become expressions of the coherence of matter and spirit. They are the embodiment of strength, hardness, immutability, cohesiveness, longevity, vigor and inner harmony, while being in opposition a reflection of the negatively marked: indifference and indifference, silence, difficulties, sterility, death, pain. The idea of ??the coexistence of contradictions is also contained in the philosopher's stone, a legendary substance searched for centuries by alchemists, transforming base metals into noble ones, being the quintessence (fifth essence), i.e. the unity of the four elements, in the process of transmutation of the opus magnum. The transformation of what is worthless into what is noble - the theme of sublimation thus refers to finding timeless things in the ordinary, the sublime in nature, the sacred in the profane. Stones and related ideas and processes depicted by the artist in dynamic compositions on the border of abstraction, represent universal mechanisms of nature, are a specific model of the universe, a coherence of matter and spirit at the micro and macro level.