PAVEL KRASHENININ

Sometimes I can’t paint. Sometimes I can’t not paint.

Painting, for me, is not a way to express a thought, but a way to convey what has no words.
Not an idea, but a state.

Art is when you put something small into a box, and everyone takes something big out of it.
If the viewer sees exactly what I put in, the work has failed.

I work in two directions.

The first is oil painting.
In it, I search for a complex state: not a сюжет, not an illustration, but tension, silence, an inner shift.
A work can take months, sometimes a year.

The second is abstraction.
There is more freedom here, and less control.
Homemade paints, construction pigments, glue, fabrics, ropes. A few sessions — and the form begins to fall apart, leaving only a sensation.

I avoid direct statements in art — they quickly turn into slogans.
It’s important for me to leave space for the viewer.

Everyone brings their own experience.
And it is that experience that completes the work.