Drawing Now Paris – Insight section
Galerie de l’Est – Darya Brient, booth IN6
March 26–30, 2025
The exhibition project establishes a dialogue between two artistic worlds and offers a reflection on human nature, its excesses, as well as the resulting ecological and societal consequences.
Sergey Kamennoy
Painter, draftsman, and photographer Sergey Kamennoy was born in Kharkiv in 1959. Sergey works on themes of human nature, on the eternal desire for domination and destruction in its primitive sense. In 2015, his artistic work was awarded the Bronze Medal of the City of Paris. He was a finalist for the Kandinsky Prize. He lives and works in France.
Drawing Now Paris 2025
Sergey Kamennoy highlights power struggles, the male quest for domination, and the violence underlying these dynamics. Through his drawings, he explores the eternal struggle for supremacy, brutality, and the conflicts that result from it. His works capture the essence of human relationships marked by competition and destruction, while questioning the deep-rooted motivations that drive man to impose his strength and authority.
Taisia Korotkova
Born in Moscow in 1980, painter and illustrator Taisia Korotkova explores the relationships between human society and contemporary science, industry, and technology, and, more recently, their impact on nature. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize, she lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Drawing now Paris 2025
The "Dark Forest" series is composed of numerous felt-tip pen drawings on the backs of kitchen oilcloths of various sizes. In this dystopian vision, humanity, driven by primitive instincts, has harnessed the destructive power of high technology. The series depicts a world where humans have disappeared, leaving behind only the ruins of military installations, while nature slowly reclaims these vestiges of so-called "civilization."
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