Light & energy
Artist and curator Sergei Chernov describes the paintings through colour, light and energetic fields, finding in them an autonomous visual reality.
SERGEI CHERNOV · ARTIST & CURATORNikita
Kropotkin
An inner
landscape
An abstract painting practice rooted in the physical presence of colour, texture and light.
In Kropotkin's paintings, colour and surface become a language for thought, feeling and memory. Layers accumulate, traces emerge and forms remain open to interpretation.
The critical texts accompanying his work describe an art of light, colour and energy. They also find a connection to the earth beneath the visible landscape: layers, minerals, unexpected structures and the traces of time.
These readings offer a way into the work. The encounter itself remains open.
Perspectives on the work
Inner landscapes
Writer and art critic Yuri Nechiporenko connects the work to hidden earthly landscapes, mineral deposits and the expressive textures beneath the surface.
YURI NECHIPORENKO · WRITER & ART CRITICA lived record
Art historian Ada Safarova reads the paintings as an ongoing record of thinking and feeling, with the intimacy and continuity of a diary.
ADA SAFAROVA · ART HISTORIAN