Take Your Time to Enjoy the Beauty of the Skies
SISTEMA GALLERY presents the SKY Project created by two artists and friends, Dmitry Shorin and Andrey Dvin. Inspired by Dutch artists of the 17th century, the pair made nine large-scale diptychs of intricately painted cloudy skies.
Open until February 4, 2024.
A diptych is an artwork consisting of two pieces.
Contemporary art can amaze, surprise, and sometimes mislead. But this exhibition is not about that at all—in the SKY Project, the artists’ cloudy spaces symmetrically reflect each other, even though they were painted separately. This means that despite the two parts having the same shape, the images differ in style. The large-scale diptychs depicting clouds may seem like symmetrical landscapes with a touch of surrealism, but the artists explain that these paintings are not about what is above our heads, but about what is in their heads.
Describing the exhibition, the artists note that the exhibition is largely about their friendship. Having met in 1987, they continue to communicate closely and look at the world with the same eyes. Their project helps to show and once again verify the extent to which people can be spiritually symmetrical. The authors look at the sky from the inside, through the prism of feelings, relationships and internal systems. Furthermore, visitors may notice that while both parts compositionally repeat each other—they have the same color scheme—Dmitry and Andrey do not copy each other, but rather mirror each other.
This project is about inner intimacy and contact between souls and energies; not every person can see their mirror counterpart so vividly—and this is a valuable thing.
Address: Building 4, 4 Bobrov Lane, Moscow
Opening hours:
Every day: 11 am–10 pm
Prices: free entry
*SISTEMA GALLERY is located an 8-minute walk from the main HSE Building complex on Myasnitskaya Ulitsa
Text by Olga Timofeeva, bachelor’s student of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication, intern at the HSE University English website team