Four Paintings by Vladimir Semensky
Born in 1968, Russian artist Vladimir Semensky creates paintings with a vibrant sense of spontaneous movement and naturalistic, individual gesture. Dynamic poses and unguarded scenarios characterise his work. Semensky’s paintings are large scale canvases and are born of the same spontaneous unique body movements he articulates in his compositions. The movements of a person are almost eccentric in their singular relation to that person’s personality, surroundings and state of mind.
Semensky describes this with disarming frankness and allows a strangely intimate view that would never be afforded by a photorealistic painting. This results in a chaotic and exciting sense that is usually absent in static imagery or posed, formal painting. He captures the transience of things, private fleeting moments that we are usually only sensitive to in those we are closest to.