EVGENY CHUBAROV

A painter, sculptor, and an enigmatic artist, Chubarov translates his emotions, moods, and intellectual insights to a new ultimate visual language. Pushing beyond conventional boundaries, Chubarov creates his unique iconography that seamlessly merges the elements of contemporary world with the rich tapestry of spiritual art traditions.

For over four decades of his career, Chubarov has ventured through the vibrant artistic scenes of Berlin, New York, and Moscow. Throughout this period, he’s been focused on refining and advancing the concept of Pure Abstraction — an innovative intellectual form of abstract gesture painting, where the line and its implementation holds a special meaning, endowing it with a distinctive and transformative power.

Chubarov’s paintings, covered in several layers of lineal ornamentation, are characterized by their great looseness in composition and dominated by lines. As with Pollock’s expressionist paintings, Chubarov’s abstract works at first seem indecipherable, as they follow the so-called All-Over principle that eliminates any emphasis on the center and afford the artist the opportunity to move freely across the large canvasses.

However, Chubarov’s technique is far from Pollock’s gestural abstraction or drip painting. His proficient mastery of all color spectrum, emphasized by the distinctive accents and powerful brushstrokes, brings his work into closer proximity to the confident expressionism by Joan Mitchell.

Chubarov subjects the works to a game of improvisation. Driven by the unpredictable nature of abstraction, he experiences this improvisation in a musical sense transforming the canvas into a symphonic phenomenon. Amplifying it with rhythmic bars, visual accents and powerful brushstrokes, he masterfully creates a dynamic visual symphony that resonates deeply with its observer. Always completed in sections, with no major “paint attack” on the canvas, Chubarov’s works diverges from classical gestural abstraction, or drip painting, to the realm of new intellectual expressionism.

Courtesy Gary Tatintsian Gallery