Vladimir Yankilevsky (1938-2018). The Space of Experience, 1990. Oil on canvas. 60-1/2 x 80 inches (153.7 x 203.2 cm). S...

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Vladimir Yankilevsky (1938-2018)
The Space of Experience, 1990
Oil on canvas
60-1/2 x 80 inches (153.7 x 203.2 cm)
Signed in Cyrillic and dated on the reverse: 90

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

The present work belongs to a series Yankilevsky executed in the late 1980s and early 1990s while living in New York. Many of these works belong to the series The Space of Experience, reflecting the artist's concern with creating a sense of a continuum between individual objects and the universe. Yankilevsky explains: "The interplay of forces in the space of the world finds its reflection in human physiology and psychology. My compositions which I call 'space of experience,' are a certain image of this interplay of forces, though this image is not physical or mathematical but anthropomorphic. I want to render the interplay of these forces visible through human experience. In this sense, these 'abstract' compositions are dramatizations. In my collages, they provide a backdrop for the human figure, which also takes the form of 'world energies,' though now as a farce or parody... Each time, holes and rapture literally implied the possibility for negating the illusory idea of the world as something complete."

NOTE:
We thank Rimma Solod Yankilevsky for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work and providing cataloging assistance.


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