Valery Chtak : Painting is a Dead Language

25 Jun-13 Aug 2010

Overview

Chtak reproduces chaos, and by doing so, he orders it. He introduces order without imposing form. His painting is rather on the side of formlessness and incompleteness. Every painting has a void, an unmarked space, the paintings aren’t fully populated. They are in a state of becoming, and continue to develop even after he has already painted them. Chtak constantly slips away and eludes finished forms; in fact, he’s a prime example of an artist-bum who starts lots of projects and never finishes anything. Maybe that’s why his pictures look like rantings and ravings, but not sick or senile ravings, but the cheerful ravings of an aggressive schizophrenic, a text that “invokes that oppressed bastard race that ceaselessly stirs beneath dominations, resisting everything that crushes and imprisons.” Or, as the author says, “It’s cool to go off.”