Taurus

"Taurus"
canvas, original technique, 60x80cm
2025

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In this work, I turn to the image of the bull not as an illustration of faith, but as a figure of inner force before which a person repeatedly feels fear, attraction, and the urge to worship. It was important for me to approach a religious image from the position of an atheist: not from inside dogma, but from the outside, through human psychology that creates symbols, gives them authority, and seeks support in them. That is why the bull appears here almost like a vision — dissolving, fluid, assembled from bursts of color, dark masses, and tense fractures of light.

I deliberately avoid direct narration. Instead, the painting is built on the collision between instinct and the sacred, the physical and the elevated. The black and deep green forms create a sense of gravity and presence, while the yellow, red, and pale passages act as the energy of revelation — not as an answer, but as an unsettling question. For me, this work is about how the sacred is born in the human mind even when belief itself is denied.