Trace

By the recollection of his contemporaries, some of Vladimir Fedorov's works were made using steeped tea bags, which he used as a brush, leaving tea stains directly on the paper.

The artist combines Fedorov's approach with his own technique of dropping paint from a height. Tea soaked in watercolor shatters against the canvas, creating bright, dynamic stains.

The uncontrolled fall of the paint resonates with Fedorov's own spirit of freedom, colliding with the canvas to leave a trace.

The work was created as part of an exhibition dedicated to the legacy of Vladimir Fedorov, a Russian artist and member of the Moscow art group Medical Hermeneutics. The group emerged at the end of the Soviet era and became a prominent representative of the younger generation of Moscow Conceptualism. Its name refers to the search for, interpretation, and “treatment” of the meanings and symptoms of culture. The artists who were part of the group employed a playful inspection aesthetic, mythologization, and an ironic analysis of Soviet and world cultural heritage.

Based on the technique of Vladimir Fedorov. Commissioned by the Voznesensky Center.