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Pavel Pepperstein — Communication with forefathers in 2608
Pavel Pepperstein

Communication with forefathers in 2608

A visionary scene rendered in delicate watercolour and ink, this work imagines a ritualistic or technological communion between the present and the distant past, set against the vast temporal horizon of the year 2608. Pepperstein's characteristic blend of psychedelic mysticism and Soviet-inflected utopian aesthetics creates a dreamlike visual language in which ancestral memory becomes a subject of futuristic speculation. The lightness of the cartridge paper ground lends the work an almost archival quality, as though the image itself is a document recovered from a civilization yet to come.

Medium
watercolour, ink on cartridge paper

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Under the Influence

December 11, 2013

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Pavel Pepperstein, Communication with forefathers in 2608

A visionary scene rendered in delicate watercolour and ink, this work imagines a ritualistic or technological communion between the present and the distant past, set against the vast temporal horizon of the year 2608. Pepperstein's characteristic blend of psychedelic mysticism and Soviet-inflected utopian aesthetics creates a dreamlike visual language in which ancestral memory becomes a subject of futuristic speculation. The lightness of the cartridge paper ground lends the work an almost archival quality, as though the image itself is a document recovered from a civilization yet to come.

Medium
watercolour, ink on cartridge paper
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Psychedelic Art, Male Artist, Conceptual Art, Russian Artist, Ancestral Themes, Mystical Mood, Watercolour And Ink, Figurative Art, Paper Medium, Contemporary Art, Futurism

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