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Vladimir Logutov | Meetings
Plinth Presents: Meetings - An Online Exhibition of New Paintings by Vladimir Logutov
In Meetings, Vladimir Logutov presents a selection of watercolour paintings from his ongoing series exploring the complexities of perception and space. Here, windows, walls and ceilings come in and out of focus. Simple abstract shapes become floorplans, the next moment bare rooms, then just squares and rhomboids again. Common to most of the compositions is a bright white rectangle, which by turns gives the impression of light hitting a back wall, windows, or the glow of a screen.
Indeed, the subject matter of Meetings is mediation itself – ‘the relationship between a conditional viewer and a conditional work of art,’ as Logutov puts it. The irony of the works being showcased in digital space is not lost on the artist. ‘I think of the rectangle as a screen. (It could be a phone or computer screen — or maybe a video projector at an exhibition — but the canvas is like a screen, too),’ Logutov says, ‘Meetings is about paying attention to the screen itself, before there is any image on it.’
