We all love warm countries for their fine weather and gentle sunshine. Nevertheless, I accepted an invitation to take part in another exhibition organized by Sensorium Gallery

From October 2 to 10, 2010, an exhibition will be held at Sensorium Gallery in Stavern, Norway, featuring works by artists Oleg Trofimov and Dmitry Annenkov. You can learn more about the gallery here. If you are nearby, I invite you to visit the gallery and have a conversation!

“The truly unruly are few—and so there are no leaders.”
An interview given online to the artist F. Starin in the summer of 2010.

Starin: Oleg, to be honest, I’m very tempted to ask you a host of questions directly related to your biography, but I’d rather talk about the artist’s worldview. About your worldview today. Do you think the visual arts have some higher purpose?
Trofimov: I think they do. Any art is meant to

‘Behind every painting you look at—or that your eye happens to fall upon—there is always something. Behind some there is the aura of time. I have seen paintings (though perhaps that is too grand a word—paintings) where what was depicted, and how it was depicted, would not have stirred any interest, but...

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