Notorious QR code. Network. Web. Modern ornament. Perspectives. Tunnel. Volumes. Structure. Urban lace. Puzurs. Crystal lattice. Cage. System of coordinates. Architectural framework. In today’s realities paintings acquires a poignant social connotation. 
Ornament is a universal information carrier. QR code is in fact the first computer generated ornament in the history of mankind.
Through centuries ornament has been the result of handmade creativity of man.

Modern QR code is the acme of form stylization and simplification with the maximal meaningfulness. It is amazing how well the character of this ultramodern ornament conveys the essence and spirit of our time. What is it? Can it be a victory of artificial intelligence over human mind? 
The history of ornament is inextricably related to folk art, nationality, tradition in the deepest meaning of the word. QR code is a story with no roots. And this is so typical of our time, with its tendency for cosmopolitism! A life without deep attachments, historical memory and with no traditions to follow is simple and convenient.

Let us take stereotyped colours, absolutely black and white. What is hidden behind this pattern? Maybe, the battle between darkness and light? Or the legendary Black Square declaring victory of machinery over the Sun already as early as the end of the century before last? As it is well known, nothing is absolute in the living nature and all colours are present there in continual interaction, giving birth to an infinite number of nuances and colour shades. 

The works of this collection are as dynamic as the century we live in. With the help of digital technologies we have accelerated the merry-go-round of times to incredible speeds. To be in a hurry, yet to be late is the plague of modern man. Will we manage to slow down or jump off this time carousel? Hardly…

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